PIERRE EUGÈNE EMILE HÉBERT | THREE-PIECE CLOCK GARNITURE

Georges Emile Henri Servant succeeded his father at his Paris foundry on the rue Vielle-du-Temple. He specialised both in the Egyptian revival style and the rapidly growing goût Grec, which became popular during the 1860s in Paris. He submitted works to the Paris Exhibition of 1855, the London Exhibition of 1862 and again in Paris when this model was shown. This garniture was highly praised in the Jury reports by Jules Mesnard, "La forme générale et les détails sont d'un caractère d'un goût parfaits, et portent ce cachet qu'on retrouve aux meilleurs ouvrages que nous ait légués l'Antiquité et notamment Pompéi, qui était romaine, mais dont bein des vases étaient du Grec le plus pur ... Ce vase de Bacchus est tout en bronze."

Servant also collaborated with Emile Hébert on revival pieces. A fine table on which they worked together was sold at Sothebys, London, February 26, 1999, lot 205.