PENDULE DITE A LA GEOFFRIN D`EPOQUE LOUIS XVI - photo 1

PENDULE DITE A LA GEOFFRIN D`EPOQUE LOUIS XVI

Lot 18
23.11.2021 10:00UTC +01:00
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€ 32 500
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationFrance, Paris
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ID 679166
Lot 18 | PENDULE DITE A LA GEOFFRIN D'EPOQUE LOUIS XVI
Estimate value
€ 30 000 – 50 000
PENDULE DITE A LA GEOFFRIN D'EPOQUE LOUIS XVI

SIGNATURE DE ROBERT ROBIN ET EDME-PORTAIL BARBICHON, LE MODELE PAR LAURENT GUIARD, VERS 1788

En marbre blanc et bronze ciselé et doré, le cadran émaillé muni d'un calendrier et signé Robin / Hger DU ROI et Barbichon et daté 1788, inscrit dans une boîte cintrée sur laquelle est accoudée une femme drapée à l'antique lisant, la base à section rectangulaire ornée de sphinges inscrites dans des entrelacs feuillagés sur un fond rebleui ; la porte arrière et le verre de la porte avant manquants

H.: 45 cm. (17 3⁄4 in.) ; L.: 64 cm. (25 1⁄4 in.) ; P.: 20,5 cm. (8 1⁄4 in.)

Robert Robin, reçu maître en 1764







Literature

C. Baulez, « La Pendule à la Geoffrin, un modèle à succès », in L’Estampille - L’Objet d’Art, avril 1989, note 30 p. 41.

Bibliographie comparative :

H. Ottomeyer et Peter Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, Die Bronzearbeiten des Spätbarock und Klassizismus, Munich, 1986, p. 160.

C. Baulez, "La Pendule à la Geoffrin, un modèle à succès", in L'Estampille - L'Objet d'Art, avril 1989, pp. 34-41

J.-D. Augarde, Les ouvriers du temps, Genève, 1996, p. 90.

P. Kjellberg, Encyclopédie de la pendule franaise du Moyen Age au XXème siècle, Paris 1997, p. 263.

Cat. expo., Madame Geoffrin, une femme d'affaires et d'esprit, Maison de Chateaubriand, avril-juillet 2011, p. 121













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A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU AND WHITE MARBLE 'GEOFFRIN' MANTEL CLOCK SIGNED BY ROBERT ROBIN AND EDME-PORTAIL BARBICHON, THE MODEL BY LAURENT GUIARD, CIRCA 1788
Historical era:Period of Louis XVI
Auction house category:Clocks - Furnishings
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