Live Auction 7586West ~ East - The Niall Hobhouse Collection
French School, late 18th Century
Lot 156

French School, late 18th Century

Design for an elaborate Louis XVI clock supported by a putto and an allegory of the arts

Closed22 May 2008

Price Realised

GBP 750

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French School, late 18th Century
Design for an elaborate Louis XVI clock supported by a putto and an allegory of the arts
black lead, pen and grey ink, grey wash, with perspectival indications, watermark Strasburg Lily above J. Honig & Zoonen
26 5/8 x 18 1/8 in. (66.7 x 46 cm.)
Together with a design for an arch and a bureau (2)

Georges de Belder, Belgium.

Specialist note

The design for the clock relates to the work of the bronzier Jean-Louis Prieur and derives in part from a pattern of the early 1760s featured in the livre de desseins of Pierre-Antoine Foullet, ébéniste of the rue du Faubourg-Saint-Antoine (H. Ottomeyer P. Pröschel et al., Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, p. 152, fig. 3.3.6).