Live Auction 7470Christie's Interiors - Style & Spirit Including Collection of a Nobleman Part I
A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU STRIKING CARTEL CLOCK
Lot 436

A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU STRIKING CARTEL CLOCK

JOÜANAIN, PARIS, CIRCA 1775

Closed20 November 2012

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A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU STRIKING CARTEL CLOCK
JOÜANAIN, PARIS, CIRCA 1775
CASE: surmounted by a twin-handled urn with pineapple finial, leafy sprays to the pierced foliate sides, swag under dial and male mask to base DIAL: 7½ in. diameter white enamel signed 'Joüanain A PARIS' in red, pierced and engraved ormolu hands MOVEMENT: twin barrels with anchor escapement, silk suspension and countwheel strike to bell, repeat signature to back plate; winding key
29¾ in. (75.5 cm.) high; 15¾ in. (40 cm.) wide; 6 in. (15.2 cm.) wide

Specialist note

This clock relates closely to a circa 1770 design by Jean-Charles Delafosse (1734-1791) now at Waddesdon Manor (G. de Bellaigue, The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor, Drawings for Architecture, Design and Ornament, vol. I, Aylesbury, 2006, p. 180, cat. 122). A clock of virtually identical design but lacking the swags under the dial and with variant ornament to the top is illustrated in P. Kjellberg, Encyclopédie de la Pendule Française, Paris, 1997, p. 191, fig. D.
The signature on the dial of this clock may refer to François-Mathieu Jouanin (1733-1800), maître in 1776 and recorded at Rue Jacob from 1778 to 1787 and Cour du Louvre in 1789 (Tardy, Dictionnaire des Horlogers Français, Paris, p. 334).