The French Touch: Hommage à Alain et Catherine Bernard
The French Touch: Hommage à Alain et Catherine Bernard
A LARGE LOUIS XVI PATINATED AND GILT-BRONZE, SEA GREEN MARBLE AND GRIOTTE RED MARBLE MANTEL CLOCK 'LE TEMPS', SIGNED MANIÈRE À PARIS | GRANDE PENDULE AU TEMPS EN BRONZE PATINÉ ET DORÉ, MARBRE VERT DE MER ET MARBRE ROUGE GRIOTTE DE LA FIN DE L'ÉPOQUE LOUIS XVI, SIGNÉE MANIÈRE À PARIS
Auction Closed
September 23, 06:37 PM GMT
Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
A LARGE LOUIS XVI PATINATED AND GILT-BRONZE, SEA GREEN MARBLE AND GRIOTTE RED MARBLE MANTEL CLOCK 'LE TEMPS', SIGNED MANIÈRE À PARIS
the clock with rotating circles inscribed in a globle, flanked by the standing figure of Chronos and a seated female figure
Haut. 97 cm, larg. 62 cm, prof. 32 cm; Height 38¼in, width 24½ in, prof 12⅔ in
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GRANDE PENDULE AU TEMPS EN BRONZE PATINÉ ET DORÉ, MARBRE VERT DE MER ET MARBRE ROUGE GRIOTTE DE LA FIN DE L'ÉPOQUE LOUIS XVI, SIGNÉE MANIÈRE À PARIS
la pendule à cercles tournants inscrits dans un globle, flanquée d'une figure de Chronos debout et d'une femme assise
Baron Mayer Nathan de Rothschild;
Sixième Comte de Rosebery, Mentmore;
Vente Sotheby's, Londres 25 Mai 1977, lot 45;
Monsieur et Madame Jack Bailey;
Vente Sotheby's, Londres, 6 décembre 2011, lot 119
Charles-Guillaume Hautemanière dit Manière, clock-maker, master in 1778
Charles-Guillaume Hautemanière, called Manière (d. ap. 1812) was received clock maker in 1778. He worked with the bronziers Thomire and Rémond. His dealer was the marchand-mercier Dominique Daguerre and at his death, his successor Martin-Éloi Lignereux.
Here are the identical models that we know:
- Collection of the Château de Groussay, Sotheby’s Paris, 2/06/1999,lot 171
- One in the Royal Palace of Naples
- One in the British Embassy in Paris (delivered in 1810 to Pauline Borghese)
- One in the collection of the Queen of the United Kingdom
- One, dated 1816, at the Senate in Paris (illustrated in Tardy, La Pendule Française, 2e partie, p. 195).
- Two signed by Manière from Christie’s London, one 12/04/1984, lot 49 and the other one 11/06/1992, lot 29.
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Charles-Guillaume Hautemanière dit Manière, reçu maître horloger en 1778