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A conSulAT MAnTel clocK – circA 1799-1804
Mahogany, ebony, bois citronnier, white tinted gum lacquer and gilt bronze
Height: 44 cm. (17 ¼ in.) Width of base: 31.1 cm. (12 ¼ in.) Depth of base: 17.7 cm. (7 in.)
coMPArATiVe liTerATure
The style of the marquetry bears similarities with:
A semainier stamped georges Jacob, sold from the château de grand-Vaux à Savigny sur orge, 22 and 24 June
1935, lot 324, and then sold Artcurial, Paris, 27 April 2018, lot 269.
A secrétaire stamped georges Jacob, formerly in the collection of Baron coudein, sold christie’s Monaco, 21
June 1998, lot 645, and then sold Sotheby’s london, 3 June 2006, lot 65.
(Both these are reproduced in Denise ledoux-lebard, Les ébénistes du XIXe siècle, Paris, editions de l’Amateur,
1984, pp. 291 et 288 respectively.)
An eMPire gilT AnD PATinATeD Bronze AnD rouge
grioTTe MAnTel clocK DePicTing SAPPHo AnD PAn –
circA 1805-1810
The dial signed levol à Paris
Height: 55 cm. (21 ¾ in.) Width: 64.5 cm. (25 ½ in.) Depth: 20.5 cm. (8 in.)
coMPArATiVe liTerATure
A similar clock also on a base of rouge griotte marble but entirely in gilt bronze, and with a
further stepped base of green marble, the dial signed Manière à Paris, is described in e. Pénicaut
et al., L’Hôtel de Brienne [résidence du Ministre de la Défense], Paris, 2012, pp. 87, 97 et 99.
cHArleS X gilT AnD PAinTeD SeVreS PorcelAin MAnTel clocK
– circA 1828-1830
Painted by Antoine Béranger (1785-1867)
Signed on the reverse of the central plaque leguillier 1828 for Jean-Charles Leguillier (active at Sèvres as a répareur,
1812-1848)
Height: 61 cm. (24 in.) Width: 23 cm. (9 in.) Depth: 20 cm. (8 in.)
The silvered bronze dial has three chapter rings indicated by gold hour and minute hands and a blued steel
sweep second hand. Three subsidiary dials indicate the phases of the moon, days of the week and month and
the months of the year. With a pin-wheel escapement, blade suspension and compensating pendulum. Strikes
the hours and half-hours by means of a count-wheel mounted on the back-plate.
This complex movement is unusual for this type of clock, most of them only indicate the hours and minutes.
ProVenAnce
Achille, Baron Prévost, Paris, delivered 31 March 1830
Baron Prévost (1782-1855) was a diplomat close to Talleyrand, maître de requêtes to the council of State and
secretary of the King’s cabinet, created Baron by charles X, under whom he was chancellor of the Department
of Foreign Affairs.
This clock was conceived from the beginning as a gift for Prévost in recognition of his services by the vicomte
de la rochefoucauld, aide-de-camp to charles X and his directeur des beaux-arts. Painted to depict The
application of paint to porcelain, it was named from its inception ‘Prévost's clock’ (la pendule de Mr Prévost). With
rochefoucauld’s order accepted on 25 March 1828, the factory clearly took a long time executing it as the first
preparatory drawings by Jean-charles leloy (1774-1846) and the project for the figure of the central plate by Béranger do not date until August of the following year.
When the clock was finally finished, it entered the magasin de vente on 26 March 1830, and with its owner obviously impatient to take possession, it left five days later,
valued at 1,500 francs.
Photography: © Michel gurfinkel | Design: Steve Hayes | Print: Blackmore, Dorset | August 2019
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Mahogany, ebony, bois citronnier, white tinted gum lacquer and gilt bronze
Height: 44 cm. (17 ¼ in.) Width of base: 31.1 cm. (12 ¼ in.) Depth of base: 17.7 cm. (7 in.)
coMPArATiVe liTerATure
The style of the marquetry bears similarities with:
A semainier stamped georges Jacob, sold from the château de grand-Vaux à Savigny sur orge, 22 and 24 June
1935, lot 324, and then sold Artcurial, Paris, 27 April 2018, lot 269.
A secrétaire stamped georges Jacob, formerly in the collection of Baron coudein, sold christie’s Monaco, 21
June 1998, lot 645, and then sold Sotheby’s london, 3 June 2006, lot 65.
(Both these are reproduced in Denise ledoux-lebard, Les ébénistes du XIXe siècle, Paris, editions de l’Amateur,
1984, pp. 291 et 288 respectively.)
An eMPire gilT AnD PATinATeD Bronze AnD rouge
grioTTe MAnTel clocK DePicTing SAPPHo AnD PAn –
circA 1805-1810
The dial signed levol à Paris
Height: 55 cm. (21 ¾ in.) Width: 64.5 cm. (25 ½ in.) Depth: 20.5 cm. (8 in.)
coMPArATiVe liTerATure
A similar clock also on a base of rouge griotte marble but entirely in gilt bronze, and with a
further stepped base of green marble, the dial signed Manière à Paris, is described in e. Pénicaut
et al., L’Hôtel de Brienne [résidence du Ministre de la Défense], Paris, 2012, pp. 87, 97 et 99.
cHArleS X gilT AnD PAinTeD SeVreS PorcelAin MAnTel clocK
– circA 1828-1830
Painted by Antoine Béranger (1785-1867)
Signed on the reverse of the central plaque leguillier 1828 for Jean-Charles Leguillier (active at Sèvres as a répareur,
1812-1848)
Height: 61 cm. (24 in.) Width: 23 cm. (9 in.) Depth: 20 cm. (8 in.)
The silvered bronze dial has three chapter rings indicated by gold hour and minute hands and a blued steel
sweep second hand. Three subsidiary dials indicate the phases of the moon, days of the week and month and
the months of the year. With a pin-wheel escapement, blade suspension and compensating pendulum. Strikes
the hours and half-hours by means of a count-wheel mounted on the back-plate.
This complex movement is unusual for this type of clock, most of them only indicate the hours and minutes.
ProVenAnce
Achille, Baron Prévost, Paris, delivered 31 March 1830
Baron Prévost (1782-1855) was a diplomat close to Talleyrand, maître de requêtes to the council of State and
secretary of the King’s cabinet, created Baron by charles X, under whom he was chancellor of the Department
of Foreign Affairs.
This clock was conceived from the beginning as a gift for Prévost in recognition of his services by the vicomte
de la rochefoucauld, aide-de-camp to charles X and his directeur des beaux-arts. Painted to depict The
application of paint to porcelain, it was named from its inception ‘Prévost's clock’ (la pendule de Mr Prévost). With
rochefoucauld’s order accepted on 25 March 1828, the factory clearly took a long time executing it as the first
preparatory drawings by Jean-charles leloy (1774-1846) and the project for the figure of the central plate by Béranger do not date until August of the following year.
When the clock was finally finished, it entered the magasin de vente on 26 March 1830, and with its owner obviously impatient to take possession, it left five days later,
valued at 1,500 francs.
Photography: © Michel gurfinkel | Design: Steve Hayes | Print: Blackmore, Dorset | August 2019
68
