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AN EMPIRE ORMOLU AND VERT MAURIN MARBLE STRIKING VASE CLOCK
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AN EMPIRE ORMOLU AND VERT MAURIN MARBLE STRIKING VASE CLOCK

THE DIAL SIGNED FOR TAVERNIER, THE CASE MODEL ATTRIBUTED TO PIERRE-PHILIPPE THOMIRE OR CLAUDE GALLE. EARLY 19TH CENTURY

Closed22 September 2011

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AN EMPIRE ORMOLU AND VERT MAURIN MARBLE STRIKING VASE CLOCK
THE DIAL SIGNED FOR TAVERNIER, THE CASE MODEL ATTRIBUTED TO PIERRE-PHILIPPE THOMIRE OR CLAUDE GALLE. EARLY 19TH CENTURY
CASE: the vase with pierced detachable cover, flanked by half-draped classical maidens standing on scroll handles, with Mercury mask to the front trailing fruiting swag mounts, above spreading socle bordered in berried laurel, the stepped variegated green marble plinth with Apollo mask, anthemion and stiff leaf mounts DIAL: white enamel, signed 'Tavernier', blued steel Breguet hands MOVEMENT: twin barrels with silk suspension and countwheel strike on bell
22 in. (56 cm.) high; 7¼ in. (18.5 cm.) wide; 7¼ in. (18.5 cm.) deep

Specialist note

The model for this vase clock has traditionally been attributed to Pierre-Philippe Thomire (1751-1843) or Claude Galle (1759-1815) and various decorative elements appear on items executed by both bronziers. An engraving of this model is in the Recueil de La Mésangère, Collection de Meubles et objets de goût of 1807. An identical clock with unsigned dial was supplied to the château de Fontainebleau by Lepaute on 23 August 1806 (J-P. Samoyault, Pendules et bronzes d'ameublement entrés sous le Premier Empire, Paris, 1989, cat. 47, p. 81), while two identical clocks with movements signed by Folin and Devillaine are in the Musée François-Duesberg, Mons, Belgium (P. Kjellberg, Encyclopédie de la Pendule Française, Paris, 1997, p. 327, fig. C).