A Paris porcelain vase clock

A Louis XVI gilt bronze-mounted Paris porcelain vase clock,
the dial signed Guillaume Meuron – circa 1785

The hard-paste porcelain Manufacture de la Reine, late 18^th Century

Height: 41 cm. (16 ¼ in.)     Width: 20.4 cm. (8 in.)     Depth: 14.5 cm. (5 ¾ in.)

Provenance

Christie’s London, 10 December 2009, lot 803

Comparative Literature

French Clocks, the world over, Part II, Paris: Tardy, 1981 (5^th edn.), p. 78.

1. Kjellberg, Encyclopédie de la pendule française du moyen âge au 20e siècle, Paris, 1997, p. 216, fig. B.

R-M. Herda-Mousseaux (ed.), La fabrique du luxe: les marchands merciers parisiens au XVIIIe siècle, exh. cat., Paris, Musée Cognacq-Jay, 29 Sep 2018 – 27 Jan 2019, p. 164, no. 52.

Several identical clocks in Paris porcelain are known:

Victoria and Albert Museum, London (Jones collection, inv. 1005-1882), illustrated in French Clocks…, op. cit., p. 78 (the dial unsigned).

Musée Cognacq-Jay, Paris (inv. J. 319), illustrated in Herda-Mousseaux, op. cit., no. 52 (the dial unsigned).

Collection of Thelma-Chrysler Foy, sold Parke-Bernet, New York, 22-23 May 1959, lot 663 (the dial unsigned).

Collection of John Pierpont Morgan, sold Parke-Bernet, New York, 8 January 1944, lot 490. Sold Koller, Zurich, 20 September 2006, lot 1169 (the dial signed DUPONT LATE.EMERY’S). Formerly collection of Pascal Izarn, Paris.

Christie’s London, 22 June 1989, lot 35, illustrated in Kjellberg, op. cit., p. 216, fig. B (the dial signed Godon, Horloger du Roy et de la Cour d’Espagne, 1786). Formerly collection of Pascal Izarn, Paris.