Live Auction 14193Robert de Balkany Rome & the Côte d'Azur
A FRENCH ORMOLU AND PATINATED-BRONZE STRIKING 'PENDULE A LA GEOFFRIN'
Lot 687

A FRENCH ORMOLU AND PATINATED-BRONZE STRIKING 'PENDULE A LA GEOFFRIN'

LATE 19TH CENTURY

Closed23 March 2017

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GBP 5,000

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A FRENCH ORMOLU AND PATINATED-BRONZE STRIKING 'PENDULE A LA GEOFFRIN'
LATE 19TH CENTURY
On a white marble plinth, the enamel dial bearing spurious signature 'Agte Berthoud/à Paris', the twin barrel movement with recoil anchor escapement and silk suspension, countwheel strike to bell (lacking) and stamped 'Rodier Paris, 1037'
18 ¾ in. (47.5 cm.) high; 25 ½ in. (65 cm.) wide; 9 in. (22.8 cm.) deep

Specialist note

The celebrated mantle clock is known as ‘pendule à la Geoffrin’ as the model was first made for Madame Geoffrin (d. 1777) who ran an important Salon. The reading figure was thought to represent her in the pose of a student as painted by Nattier in 1738 and probably sculpted by Laurent Guiard in 1754. Various examples were produced over the next thirty years, one in the Wallace Collection in London (F267).