ID 1126417
Lot 30 | A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU, SILVERED BRONZE AND ROUGE GRIOTTE 'PENDULE A CERCLES TOURNANTS'
Estimate value
$ 80 000 – 120 000
POSSIBLY AFTER A DESIGN BY CHARLES DE WAILLY, CIRCA 1775
The berried finial and leaf-tip domed top resting on floral openwork tapering support, two circular enamel dials with Roman chapters and Arabic minutes held aloft by a pair of swans with floral garland swags, all raised on a rouge griotte cylindrical marble base with a central ormolu panel depicting dancing Bacchantes
21 in. (53 cm.) high, 8 ½ in. (21.5 cm.) wide, 8 in. (20 cm.) deep
Provenance
(Almost certainly) François Marie Taillepied, vicomte de Bondy (1802-1890) ; Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris, 21-22 May 1891, lot 95.
M. H. Beéche; Galerie Georges Petit, 9 May 1904, 95, (illustrated).
Acquired at the above sale by Léon Michel-Lévy (1846-1925).
With Au Balancier de Cristal, Paris, 1949.
Literature
Tardy, La pendule française des origines à nos jours, Du Louis XVI à nos jour, Vol. II, Paris, 1949, p. 289, fig. 2.
| Applied technique: | Metalwork, Ormolu |
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| Medium: | Bronze, Gold |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Clocks - Furnishings |
| Applied technique: | Metalwork, Ormolu |
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| Medium: | Bronze, Gold |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Clocks - Furnishings |
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