Lot n° 74
Estimation :
1500 - 2000
EUR
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Result
: 1 800EUR
Early Louis XVI period gilt bronze clock representing Urania - Lot 74
Early Louis XVI period gilt bronze clock representing Urania, muse of Astronomy, surrounded by scientific instruments such as compass, square, celestial globe and telescope. The white enamelled dial with Roman numerals for the hours and Arabic numerals for the minutes signed Causard Horloger du Roy following the Court.
Resting on a base in lacquered sheet metal decorated with friezes of posts and gilded bronze quartefoils.
Movement with suspension with wire complete of its stamp and its pendulum and incomplete of the key (Not guaranteed).
42 x 39 x 16 cm
The original model executed around 1765 by the chaser-gilder Jean-Joseph de Saint-Germain (1719-1791) for the cabinetmaker Antoine Foullet.
A similar model is kept in the Carnavalet Museum, Paris, inventory number MB468.
Georges Causard, clockmaker to the king following the court, active in Paris from 1755
(Missing gilding and lack of lacquer on the base, deformations, small accidents and restorations)
Bibliography:
KJELLBERG, Pierre, Encyclopedia of the French Clock from the Middle Ages to the 20th Century, Les éditions de l'amateur, Paris, 1997, pp. 5 and 253
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