Live Auction 8011The Gothick Pavilion - A Private Collection from Belgravia
A FRENCH ORMOLU, CHINESE AND EUROPEAN PORCELAIN MANTEL CLOCK
Lot 394

A FRENCH ORMOLU, CHINESE AND EUROPEAN PORCELAIN MANTEL CLOCK

MID-18TH CENTURY AND LATER, THE CELADON BUFFALO LATE QING DYNASTY (1644-1912)

Closed26 January 2011

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A FRENCH ORMOLU, CHINESE AND EUROPEAN PORCELAIN MANTEL CLOCK
MID-18TH CENTURY AND LATER, THE CELADON BUFFALO LATE QING DYNASTY (1644-1912)
The enamel dial painted with Roman and Arabic chapters, within a green barrel-shaped drum surrounded by soft-paste porcelain flowers and supported on a celadon porcelain buffalo, on a naturalistic base, the dial signed 'J.B. Baillon a Paris', the outside counterwheel strike similarly signed, the dial, movement, drum, flowers, branches, girth and buffalo added in the 19th century
22¼ in. (56.5 cm.) high

Anonymous sale, Christie's London, 4 December 1980, lot 32.

Specialist note

The base upon which the buffalo stands is a model by the maître fondeur en terre et en sable Jean-Joseph de Saint-Germain. St. Germain frequently supplied cases cast with animal forms and allegorical figures to the leading clockmakers of Paris, including the le Roy workshops, Etienne Lenoir and Jean-Philippe Gosselin. An example with rhinoceros support on this model of base was in the collection of Louise-Elisabeth, Princess of Parma (1727-59), 'Madame Infante', and is visible in the 1765 portrait of her by Laurent Pécheux (Metropolitan Museum, New York; J.-D. Augarde, 'Jean-Joseph de Saint-Germain: Bronzier (1719 - 1791)', L'Estampille L'Objet d'Art, December 1996, pp. 63-82).