A Restauration gilt-bronze and malachite mantel clock, circa 1823, after a model by Jean-Jacques Feuchère
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8,000 - 12,000 EUR
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Description
decorated with friezes of pearls, palmettes and egg-and-dart motifs, on a rectangular base with four corner feet, the movement inscribed "Pons, MEDAILLE D'ARGENT 1823"
Haut. 59,5 cm, larg. 33,5 cm, prof. 18 cm ; height 23 ½ in, width 13 ¼ in, depth 7 in
By repute, Russian Imperial Collections, Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, prior to 1917 ;
Ariane Dandois : European Furniture, Paintings & Asian Art, Sotheby's New York, 26 octobre 2007, Lot 630.
Honore Pons (1773-1851), clockmaker, received a silver medal in 1823 and gold medal in 1827 at exhibitions of French industrial products in Paris.
The design of this clock relates to a model by Feuchère and Fossey reproduced by Jacquet in Paris circa 1825 and illustrated, Ottomeyer, Pröschel et al., Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, Vol. I, p. 398, fig. 5.18.17. An almost identical clock is illustrated in Decorative Objects, St. Petersburg Private Collections, Moscow, 1998, p. 144.
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