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AN EMPIRE ORMOLU AND PATINATED BRONZE FIGURAL MANTEL CLOCK 'L'Amérique'
拍品 513 PROPERTY OF A GERMAN LADY
(LOTS 1-11, 235, 251, 268, 273 AND 513)

AN EMPIRE ORMOLU AND PATINATED BRONZE FIGURAL MANTEL CLOCK 'L'Amérique'

BY J.F. DEVERBERIE, LATE 18TH CENTURY

已結束2012年4月4日

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EUR 27,400

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AN EMPIRE ORMOLU AND PATINATED BRONZE FIGURAL MANTEL CLOCK 'L'Amérique'
BY J.F. DEVERBERIE, LATE 18TH CENTURY
The white enamel dial signed Deverberie and Int. Ft. Re Barbet Paris, with pierced ormolu hands and twin-barrel movement with silk suspended pendulum and countwheel strike on bell, within a drum-shaped case surmounted by a seated female figure with a plumed skirt and headdress emblematic of America, with arrow and quiver above an alligator and flanked by a palm tree, on a rectangular rounded and spreading base decorated with serpents and floral garlands, on toupie feet
48 cm. high

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This clock celebrates the Continent of America and is an allegory of L'Amérique after the design signed and dated No.12 Deverberie due trois Pluviose an Sept (1799) in the cabinet des Estampes, Bibliothque Nationale, Paris (H. Ottomeyer, P. Pörschel et al., Vergoldete Bronzen, Münich, 1986, vol.I, p.381, fig. 5.15.28). The design is inscribed by the Parisian clock-maker and marchand mercier De Verberie, the very person who signed the dial of this clock. De Verberie, who in 1804 had a shop at the Boulevard du Temple, sold clocks representing a series of the Continents, including this l'Amérique.

A clock of the same model, in the Musée Paul Dupuy, Toulouse, is illustrtated in Tardy, La Pendule Française, Paris, 1967-69, vol.II, p.357, and another one from the collection of the late Michael Behrens was sold, Christie's, London, 11 June 1998, lot 58.