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A RESTAURATION ORMOLU-MOUNTED PARIS PORCELAIN LYRE CLOCK

Lot 426
13.10.2023 10:00UTC -05:00
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ID 1027790
Lot 426 | A RESTAURATION ORMOLU-MOUNTED PARIS PORCELAIN LYRE CLOCK
Estimate value
$ 8 000 – 12 000
A RESTAURATION ORMOLU-MOUNTED PARIS PORCELAIN LYRE CLOCK

CIRCA 1820

The white enameled dial with Roman and Arabic numerals framed by quartz cabochons within a lyre-form body surmounted by an Apollo mask issuing sunbeams and mounted with ormolu acanthus leaf-tip mounts above a stepped plinth base further mounted with berried and floral garlands

24 ¾ in. (63 cm.) high, 12 ½ in. (31 cm.) wide, 5 ½ in. (14 cm.) deep





Provenance

Baron Alphonse de Rothschild (1827-1905), in the Petit Salon Bleu, hôtel Saint-Florentin, Paris.

Baron Édouard de Rothschild (1868-1949),

Confiscated by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg following the Nazi occupation of France in May 1940.

Restituted to the Rothschild family by 24 July 1945.

By descent to the present owners.



Literature

The Rothschild Archive, London, Inventaire après le décès de Monsieur le Baron Alphonse de Rothschild, A. Cottin Notaire, 16 October 1905 (hôtel Saint-Florentin, Petit Salon Bleu (‘Pendule, lyre Sèvres rose, montée sur bronze dore estimée cinq mille francs’).



Archives of the Commission de Récuperation Artistique (CRA), Archives Diplomatiques, Paris, 209 SUP/108:

Letter, R. Antonietti to Henraux, President de la Commission de Récuperation des Objets d’Art, 24 July 1945; Collection de Mr le Baron Edouard de Rothschild, Inventaire par caisses, Inventaires des porcelaines, p 7, caisse 135, no. 1470: ‘Pendule en forme de lyre – porcelaine rose et bronze dorée– socle ovale de porcelaine: frise de feuilles et cornes d’abondance. File de perles de bronze doré – La lyre de porcelaine rose est entourée à sa base de feuilles d’acanthe et porte deux anses mobiles, couronnes de fleurs de bronze doré – à la partie supérieure masque rayonnant entre deux têtes de béliers reliées par une guirlande de fleurs – bordure de fil de perles, cadran at aiguilles ornés de cailloux du Rhin – Socle ovale de marbre blanc à fil de perles de bronze doré.’



COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

R. Vian des Rives (sous la dir.), La Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild, Paris, 2002, p. 34.
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