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拍品专文
Other examples of this popular model sold at auction include the following. In grey marble: Christie's London, 8 July 2010, lot 44 (£21,250). A smaller version with white marble sold Christie's London, 29 April 2010, lot 134 (£27,500). In white marble: the Partridge collection, Christie's New York, 17 May 2006, lot 27 ($38,400); the Wildenstein collection, Christie's London, 14 December 2005, lot 18 (£28,800). In black marble: Sotheby's London, 12 June 2002, lot 395 (£19,120). In red marble: Christie's London, 14 December 2000, lot 198 (£28,200).
This model, entitled L'Étude et la Philosophie was an enormously successful and popular model in the late 18th Century. It derives from a drawing in a catalogue produced by François Rémond, circa 1785, which incorporates figures designed and supplied to the Sèvres factory for reproduction in biscuit porcelain by the sculptor Simon-Louis Boizot. Rémond was one of the most celebrated ciseleurs-doreurs during the reign of Louis XVI and counted amongst his distinguished clientèle the comte d'Artois and the princesse Kinsky. Between February 1784 and October 1787, Rémond sold at least thirty-two versions of this model to Dominique Daguerre (Augarde, p.175). In 1788 Daguerre delivered three of these clocks, to Louis XVI at the château de Saint-Cloud.
Joseph Mignolet became a maître horloger on 3 August 1786. Established in the rue Saint-Honoré and then rue Saint-Anne, he married the daughter of the horloger Léchopié (see lot 258), with whom he had five children -- only one of whom went on to follow in his father's profession. A creditor of the duc de Richelieu, he supplied a number of clocks to the marquis de Mirabeau, the celebrated economist and father of the famous orator.
This model, entitled L'Étude et la Philosophie was an enormously successful and popular model in the late 18th Century. It derives from a drawing in a catalogue produced by François Rémond, circa 1785, which incorporates figures designed and supplied to the Sèvres factory for reproduction in biscuit porcelain by the sculptor Simon-Louis Boizot. Rémond was one of the most celebrated ciseleurs-doreurs during the reign of Louis XVI and counted amongst his distinguished clientèle the comte d'Artois and the princesse Kinsky. Between February 1784 and October 1787, Rémond sold at least thirty-two versions of this model to Dominique Daguerre (Augarde, p.175). In 1788 Daguerre delivered three of these clocks, to Louis XVI at the château de Saint-Cloud.
Joseph Mignolet became a maître horloger on 3 August 1786. Established in the rue Saint-Honoré and then rue Saint-Anne, he married the daughter of the horloger Léchopié (see lot 258), with whom he had five children -- only one of whom went on to follow in his father's profession. A creditor of the duc de Richelieu, he supplied a number of clocks to the marquis de Mirabeau, the celebrated economist and father of the famous orator.