Lot n° 230
Estimation :
4000 - 6000
EUR
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: 3 300EUR
Saint Germain et Delaruelle - Lot 230
Saint Germain et Delaruelle
Chased and gilded bronze clock representing Urania, muse of astronomy. She is seated on a dais with a frieze of posts on which books rest, a telescope in her right hand. At her feet, a starry sphere. Dial with Roman and Arabic numerals and movement signed DELARUELLE in PARIS.
Signed St GERMAIN.
Louis XVI period
Height 36.5 Width 34 Depth 17 cm
Notes and Bibliography: The original drawing of this clock, made for the cabinetmaker Pierre-Antoine Foullet around 1760, is in the Jacques Doucet library in Paris. It is reproduced in Ottomeyer and Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich 1986, vol. 1, p. 162, no. 3.3.6. The Gulbekian Museum in Lisbon preserves a clock of this model.
The famous bronzemaker Jean-Joseph de Saint Germain, 1719-1791, produced this model with a few variations, including the one in the Musée Carnavalet in Paris.
Two clocks identical to ours, signed Jean-Joseph de Saint Germain and DELARUELLE, are reproduced, one in Pierre Kjellberg's "La pendule Française", p. 253, fig. E, the other in Ottomeyer and Pröschel's "Vergoldete Bronzen", Munich 1986, vol. 2, p. 534, no. 16.
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