Live Auction 2825The Decorative Arts Sale
A NAPOLEON III ORMOLU, ORMOLU-MOUNTED AND WHITE MARBLE STRIKING MANTEL CLOCK
Lot 437

A NAPOLEON III ORMOLU, ORMOLU-MOUNTED AND WHITE MARBLE STRIKING MANTEL CLOCK

DENIERE, PARIS. THIRD QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

Closed1 July 2009

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EUR 4,000

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A NAPOLEON III ORMOLU, ORMOLU-MOUNTED AND WHITE MARBLE STRIKING MANTEL CLOCK
DENIERE, PARIS. THIRD QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
The case in Louis XVI-style and decorated with garlands, acanthus and surmounted by an urn, the white enamel dial signed DENIERE/Ft DE BRONZES/A PARIS, pierced ormolu hands, on a moulded white marble plinth base, twin barrel eight-day movement with brocot type spring suspension and adjustable crutchpiece, striking on bell, the backplate stamped Jx DENIERE A PARIS 245 and JUVENAUX; pendulum
58 cm. high

Specialist note

Circa 1849 Guillaume Denière took over the Parisian business established by his father Jean-Francois Deninger (called Denière) in 1804. As Manufacture de bronzes d'art et d'objets d'ameublement they produced a variety of high quality decorative bronzes.
Under the Second Empire of Napoleon III (1852-1870), Denière supplied important commissions to the Mobilier de la Couronne (mainly clocks for the Tuileries), to Kisselef, the Russian Ambassador, and to Said Pasha, the viceroy of Egypt.
Records shown that the firm was active until 1903.