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PENDULE A L`OBELISQUE D`EPOQUE LOUIS XVI

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23.11.2021 10:00UTC +02:00
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CHRISTIE'S
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ID 679164
Lot 162 | PENDULE A L'OBELISQUE D'EPOQUE LOUIS XVI
PENDULE A L'OBELISQUE D'EPOQUE LOUIS XVI

SIGNATURE DE ROBERT ROBIN ET DATEE 1774

En bronze ciselé, doré et partiellement laquée polychrome, l'obélisque à décor toutes faces de chutes de trophées scientifiques, sommé d'une sphère armillaire et indiquant les signes du zodiaque, sur des cadrans tournants les heures et les minutes, le socle flanqué d'enroulement en console présentant les phases de la lune, la base à ressaut, les patins feuillagés, l'obélisque signé Robin AParis, le mouvement signé Robin AParis / 1774 ; quelques manques, accidents et restaurations

H.: 49 cm. (19 in.) ; L.: 26,5 cm. (10 1⁄2 in.) ; P.: 14,5 cm. (5 3⁄4 in.)

Robert Robin, nommé horloger du Roi en 1782







Provenance

Comte de Bryas ;

Probablement Madame Dubernet Douine; Vente Me Ader, Drouot, Paris, 15-16 mai 1946, lot 152 ;

Hubert de Saint Senoch; vente Sotheby's, Monaco, 4-6 décembre 1983, lot 306.





Literature

G. Wannenes, Le piu belle pendole francesi. Da Luigi XIV all'Impero, 1991, p. 129.

E. Niehüser, French bronze clocks 1700-1830. A study of the Figural Images, Atglen, 1999, p. 250, ill. 1082.











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A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU OBELISK-FORM MANTEL CLOCK SIGNED BY ROBERT ROBIN AND DATED 1774
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