A TERRACOTTA CLOCK DEPICTING `LA FONTAINE DE L`AMOUR`

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Los 55 | A TERRACOTTA CLOCK DEPICTING 'LA FONTAINE DE L'AMOUR'
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A TERRACOTTA CLOCK DEPICTING 'LA FONTAINE DE L'AMOUR'

BY CLAUDE MICHEL (1738-1814) CALLED CLODION, LATE 18TH CENTURY

Signed ‘CLODION’ to the back, the white enameled dial signed 'Crosnier / AParis' with gilt-bronze frame, on a later ormolu-mounted faux marbre base

16 in. (40.5 cm.) high, 20 in. (50.5 cm.) long, 9 in. (22.5 cm.) deep





Provenance

Possibly Collection Grand Pré sale, 16 February 1809, lot 175 (bought 371FF by Payet).

Possibly Anonymous Sale [Payet or Paillet], Paris, 9 December 1811, lot 128 (bought 270FF by Coquille).

Possibly Walville sale, 23 October 1820, lot 155.

Baron Alphonse de Rothschild (1827-1905), in the Chambre de Monsieur le Baron, hôtel Saint-Florentin, Paris.

Baron Édouard de Rothschild (1868-1949), in the Fumoir sur la rue de Rivoli, hôtel Saint-Florentin, Paris.

Confiscated from the above by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg following the Nazi occupation of France in May 1940 (ERR crate no. R 748) and transferred to Germany.

Returned to France and restituted to the Rothschild family on 19 November 1946.

By descent to the current owners.



Literature

H. Thirion, Les Adam et Clodion, Paris, 1885, p. 403.

A. Poulet and G. Scherf, Clodion 1738-1814, 17 March-29 June 1992, exh. cat., pp. 432, 436.



COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

G. Scherf, 'Clodion, ‘Le Fragonard de la terre cuite,' Dossier de l’art, no. 7, Dijon, April-May 1992, p. 6.



The Rothschild Archive, London, Inventaire après le décès de Monsieur le Baron Alphonse de Rothschild, A. Cottin Notaire, 16 October 1905 (hôtel Saint-Florentin, Chambre de Monsieur le Baron, ‘Pendule terre cuite, groupes Clodion-10,000 francs’).
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