ID 1027451
Lot 52 | A LOUIS XV PATINATED-BRONZE AND ORMOLU MANTEL CLOCK 'A L'ELEPHANT'
Estimate value
$ 70 000 – 90 000
MID-18TH CENTURY, THE MOVEMENT BY JEAN LENOIR
The case cast with floral and rocaille motifs, white enamel dial with Roman and Arabic chapters signed 'JEAN LENOIR A PARIS', surmounted by a woman seated on a cushion, supported on an elephant standing on a naturalistic base cast with plants and rockwork on a pierced foliate scrolls, the movement associated and signed 'Jean Andr. Lehner'
28 ½ in. (73 cm.) high, 22 in. (56 cm.) wide, 14 in. (36 cm.) deep
Provenance
Baron Alphonse de Rothschild (1827-1905), in the Chambre damas rouge, Château de Ferrières, Seine-et-Marne.
By descent to the present owners.
Literature
C. Frégnac, Belles demeures de Paris 16e-19e siècle, Paris, 1977, p. 74.
The Rothschild Archive, London, Inventaire après le décès de Monsieur le Baron Alphonse de Rothschild, A. Cottin Notaire, 16 October 1905 (Château de Ferrières, Chambre damas rouge, ‘Pendule éléphant Louis XV- 800 francs’).
| Artist: | Philippe Caffiéri (1714 - 1774) |
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| Applied technique: | Ormolu |
| Medium: | Gold |
| Historical era: | Period of Louis XV |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects, Furniture and Lamps, Clocks - Furnishings, Mantel clocks |
| Artist: | Philippe Caffiéri (1714 - 1774) |
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| Applied technique: | Ormolu |
| Medium: | Gold |
| Historical era: | Period of Louis XV |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects, Furniture and Lamps, Clocks - Furnishings, Mantel clocks |
| Address of auction |
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