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PENDULE D`ÉPOQUE BAROQUE DITE `PRUNKUHR`

Lot 13
21.11.2023 15:00UTC +01:00
Classic
Starting price
€ 200 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationFrance, Paris
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ID 1072672
Lot 13 | PENDULE D'ÉPOQUE BAROQUE DITE 'PRUNKUHR'
Estimate value
€ 200 000 – 400 000
PENDULE D'ÉPOQUE BAROQUE DITE 'PRUNKUHR'

PAR JOHANN VALENTIN GEVERS, AUGSBOURG, 1709-1712, LE MOUVEMENT SIGNÉ FERDINANT MILLER

En placage d'écaille de tortue, lapis-lazuli et ornementation d'argent en partie associée, de forme architecturale à décor de rinceaux, frises de godrons, rais-de-cœur et d'oves, surmontée d'une allégorie de la Fortune, la partie centrale supérieure voûtée à décor d'un médaillon représentant une scène avec la déesse Diane, flanquée de doubles colonnes cannelées sommées chacune d'une urne ornée de guirlandes de fleurs, et encadrée de deux déesses dont Déméter, la partie médiane à pans coupés à alcôves abritant deux déesses dont Vesta, centrée d'un cadran d'horloge à chiffres romains, et flanquée de colonnes corinthiennes cannelées, l'ensemble reposant sur une base ouvrant par un tiroir centré d'un médaillon représentant l'Enlèvement de Perséphone et flanqué des figures d'Hadès et de Chronos, le tablier orné d'un petit médaillon ovale représentant Vénus et Cupidon et coulissant pour révéler un miroir, les pieds toupies à facettes, poinçons sur la plaque: ville et maître-orfèvre, le mouvement signé 'KAYSERLICHER HOFFBEFREYDER FERDINANT MILLER '

H.: 110 cm. (43 ½ in.) ; L.: 70 cm. (27 ½ in.) ; P.: 31 cm. (12 in.)

Johann Valentin Gevers, orfèvre reçu maître en 1700.





Provenance

Baron James de Rothschild (1792-1868), salon des Cuirs, Château de Ferrières, Seine-et-Marne ; puis par descendance jusqu’au propriétaire actuel.



Literature

Bibliographie comparative :

E. von Bassermann-Jordan, Die Geschichte der Räderuhr unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Uhren des Bayerischen Nationalmuseums, Francfort, 1905, cat. no. 57.

Cat. exp., Silber und Gold. Augsburger Goldschmiedekunst für die Höfe Europas, Bavarian National Museum, Munich, 1994, pp. 388-389, n° 93.

Bayerisches Nationalmuseum. Handbuch der kunst- und kulturgeschichtlichen Sammlungen, Munich, 2000, p. 186.

D. von Kerssenbrock-Krosigk, Rubinglas des ausgehenden 17. und des 18. Jahrhunderts, Mayence, 2001, p. 252, no. 419.

K. Gaulke et A. Scherner, Ein Meisterwerk voller Rätsel. Die Augsburger Prunkuhr, Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel, Monographische Reihe, Vol. 20, Kassel, 2007, pp. 8-23, Fig. 12.

S. Mouquin, A. Bos, S. Hellal et Prince Amyn Aga Khan, Les Arts décoratifs en Europe. De la Renaissance à l'Art déco, Paris, 2020, p. 208, fig. 210.



Further details

A SOUTH GERMAN SILVER AND LAPIS LAZULI-MOUNTED TORTOISESHELL TABLE CLOCK 'PRUNKUHR', MARK OF JOHANN VALENTIN GEVERS, AUGSBURG, 1709-1712,THE MOVEMENT SIGNED FERDINANT MILLER
Applied technique:Metalwork
Medium:Silver, Tortoiseshell
Art style:Baroque, Old Masters
Place of origin:Western Europe, Germany, Europe
Auction house category:Furniture and Lamps
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