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A PAir oF louiS XV gilT Bronze-MounTeD cHineSe
BlAnc De cHine PorcelAin Fu Dog THree-ligHT
cAnDelABrA – circA 1745-1749
The porcelain 18th Century, the mounts struck with the crowned ‘C’ poinçon (1745-1749)
Height: 34 cm. (13 ½ in.) Width: 23.5 cm. (9 ¼ in.) Depth: 23.5 cm. (9 ¼ in.)
coMPArATiVe liTerATure
A pair of unmounted blanc de chine Fu Dogs of the same model is in the collections of the
Musée nissim de camondo, Paris, reproduced in D. F. lunsingh Scheurleer, Chinesisches und
japanisches Porzellan in europäischen Fassungen, Brunswick, 1980, abb. 384.
Several other Fu Dogs mounted in a similar fashion are amongst the collections at the residenz in
Munich, reproduced op. cit., abb. 375.
The crowned 'c' was a tax on metal in force between 1745 and 1749 to finance the War of the
Austrian Succession. it seems to have been marked on only the most refined bronzes.
A louiS XV gilT Bronze-MounTeD cHineSe FAMille VerTe
PorcelAin AnD BiScuiT PerFuMe FounTAin – circA 1745-1749
The porcelain and the biscuit Kangxi Period (1662-1722), the mounts struck with the crowned ‘C’ poinçon
(1745-1749)
Height: 29.5 cm. (11 ½ in.) Width: 26.5 cm. (10 ½ in.)
ProVenAnce
Sold Ader Picard Tajan, Hôtel george V, 23 June 1988, lot 25
Daniel Duault, Paris
coMPArATiVe liTerATure
A very similar fountain sold Sotheby’s london, 17 May 1968, lot 33 is reproduced in D. F. lunsingh Scheurleer,
Chinesisches und japanisches Porzellan in europäischen Fassungen, Brunswick, 1980, abb. 167.
The crowned 'c' was a tax on metal in force between 1745 and 1749 to finance the War of the Austrian
Succession. it seems to have been marked on only the most refined bronzes.
A louiS XVi gilT AnD PATinATeD Bronze MAnTel clocK
The figures of Vigilance, Study and the Young Apollo modelled by Louis-Simon Boizot, the gilt bronze
case by François Rémond
The enamelled dial with four chapter rings signed Sotiau AParis, the spring movement signed
Monginot 1784
Height: 56 cm. (22 in.) Width: 62 cm. (24 ½ in.) Depth: 18 cm. (7 in.)
The model was commercialized by the marchand mercier Dominique Daguerre (1725-1796)
François rémond (1747-1812)
louis-Simon Boizot (1743-1809)
renacle-nicolas Sotiau (1749-1791, maître on 24 June 1782)
ProVenAnce
Sotheby’s Monaco, 21-22 June 1987, lot 1090
liTerATure
christian Baulez, ‘essai sur l'œuvre décoratif de louis-Simon Boizot. les bronziers gouthière,
Thomire et rémond’, in Louis-Simon Boizot (1743-1809), exh. cat. Versailles, Musée lambinet, 23
october 2001 – 24 February 2002, Paris, 2001, p. 288, fig. 11 (ill.)
on 9 December 1786, rémond billed Daguerre 1300 livres for supplying a clock with three
figures including a Young Apollo. A second version was sold to him for the same price on 23
october 1787 with figures of La Vigilance, L’Etude and le Petit Apollon. A third version was executed in 1790 and a fourth may have followed in 1791. The figures can be
attributed to Boizot as they are the same model of La Vigilance and L’Etude created by him for David roentgen and which surmount a desk made in 1785 for catherine
the great (op. cit., fig. 6, p. 284). The bas-relief of Astronomy decorating the frieze of this clock can be attributed to the bronzier, François Damerat, on the basis of
others that are signed.
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BlAnc De cHine PorcelAin Fu Dog THree-ligHT
cAnDelABrA – circA 1745-1749
The porcelain 18th Century, the mounts struck with the crowned ‘C’ poinçon (1745-1749)
Height: 34 cm. (13 ½ in.) Width: 23.5 cm. (9 ¼ in.) Depth: 23.5 cm. (9 ¼ in.)
coMPArATiVe liTerATure
A pair of unmounted blanc de chine Fu Dogs of the same model is in the collections of the
Musée nissim de camondo, Paris, reproduced in D. F. lunsingh Scheurleer, Chinesisches und
japanisches Porzellan in europäischen Fassungen, Brunswick, 1980, abb. 384.
Several other Fu Dogs mounted in a similar fashion are amongst the collections at the residenz in
Munich, reproduced op. cit., abb. 375.
The crowned 'c' was a tax on metal in force between 1745 and 1749 to finance the War of the
Austrian Succession. it seems to have been marked on only the most refined bronzes.
A louiS XV gilT Bronze-MounTeD cHineSe FAMille VerTe
PorcelAin AnD BiScuiT PerFuMe FounTAin – circA 1745-1749
The porcelain and the biscuit Kangxi Period (1662-1722), the mounts struck with the crowned ‘C’ poinçon
(1745-1749)
Height: 29.5 cm. (11 ½ in.) Width: 26.5 cm. (10 ½ in.)
ProVenAnce
Sold Ader Picard Tajan, Hôtel george V, 23 June 1988, lot 25
Daniel Duault, Paris
coMPArATiVe liTerATure
A very similar fountain sold Sotheby’s london, 17 May 1968, lot 33 is reproduced in D. F. lunsingh Scheurleer,
Chinesisches und japanisches Porzellan in europäischen Fassungen, Brunswick, 1980, abb. 167.
The crowned 'c' was a tax on metal in force between 1745 and 1749 to finance the War of the Austrian
Succession. it seems to have been marked on only the most refined bronzes.
A louiS XVi gilT AnD PATinATeD Bronze MAnTel clocK
The figures of Vigilance, Study and the Young Apollo modelled by Louis-Simon Boizot, the gilt bronze
case by François Rémond
The enamelled dial with four chapter rings signed Sotiau AParis, the spring movement signed
Monginot 1784
Height: 56 cm. (22 in.) Width: 62 cm. (24 ½ in.) Depth: 18 cm. (7 in.)
The model was commercialized by the marchand mercier Dominique Daguerre (1725-1796)
François rémond (1747-1812)
louis-Simon Boizot (1743-1809)
renacle-nicolas Sotiau (1749-1791, maître on 24 June 1782)
ProVenAnce
Sotheby’s Monaco, 21-22 June 1987, lot 1090
liTerATure
christian Baulez, ‘essai sur l'œuvre décoratif de louis-Simon Boizot. les bronziers gouthière,
Thomire et rémond’, in Louis-Simon Boizot (1743-1809), exh. cat. Versailles, Musée lambinet, 23
october 2001 – 24 February 2002, Paris, 2001, p. 288, fig. 11 (ill.)
on 9 December 1786, rémond billed Daguerre 1300 livres for supplying a clock with three
figures including a Young Apollo. A second version was sold to him for the same price on 23
october 1787 with figures of La Vigilance, L’Etude and le Petit Apollon. A third version was executed in 1790 and a fourth may have followed in 1791. The figures can be
attributed to Boizot as they are the same model of La Vigilance and L’Etude created by him for David roentgen and which surmount a desk made in 1785 for catherine
the great (op. cit., fig. 6, p. 284). The bas-relief of Astronomy decorating the frieze of this clock can be attributed to the bronzier, François Damerat, on the basis of
others that are signed.
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