A vase clock decorated with the Four Seasons

A late Louis XV gilt bronze vase clock à cercles tournants,
decorated with tole-painted representations of the Four Seasons
 circa 1765-1770

Height: 50 cm. (19 ¾ in.)     Width: 25.6 cm. (10 in.)     Depth:23 cm. (9 in.)

Comparative literature

V.Plotard-Cieslik, ‘Tôle et laque : un mariage réussi’, in A. Forray-Carlier and M. Kopplin (eds.), Les secrets de la laque française, le vernis Martin, Paris, 2014, pp. 267-291.
J.-D. Augarde, Les ouvriers du temps: la pendule à Paris de Louis XIV à Napoléon I, Geneva, 1996, pp. 376-377, no. 277.
Catalogue, Ségoura, 1997, pp. 68-69.

An identical clock formerly in the collection of Maurice Ségoura is illustrated in Augarde, op. cit., no. 277 and Ségoura’s 1997 catalogue, pp. 68-69.