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Lot Essay
Robert Robin, maître in 1767 and appointed horloger du Roi in 1785.
Astrology is represented on this mantel clock by the figure of Urania with a collection of astronomical instruments and charts scattered around her. The model is loosely based on a drawing by Jean-Louis Prieur, dated around 1766, for a clock intended for the Royal Palace in Warsaw. Pierre-Antoine Foullet included a similar drawing for a mantel clock with Urania in his Livre de desseins, which was described as Pièce de Bureau and priced at 341 Livres.
A closely related model of this clock attributed to Robert and Jean-Baptiste Osmond in the Landesmuseum, Stuttgart is illustrated in H.Ottomeyer, P.Pröschel et al., Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, vol.I, p.166, fig.3.4.3; while another clock with Urania, also signed by Robin, based slightly closer on Foullet's drawing, was sold anonymously, Christie's Monaco, 13 December 1998, lot 344 (FF 69,000).
Astrology is represented on this mantel clock by the figure of Urania with a collection of astronomical instruments and charts scattered around her. The model is loosely based on a drawing by Jean-Louis Prieur, dated around 1766, for a clock intended for the Royal Palace in Warsaw. Pierre-Antoine Foullet included a similar drawing for a mantel clock with Urania in his Livre de desseins, which was described as Pièce de Bureau and priced at 341 Livres.
A closely related model of this clock attributed to Robert and Jean-Baptiste Osmond in the Landesmuseum, Stuttgart is illustrated in H.Ottomeyer, P.Pröschel et al., Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, vol.I, p.166, fig.3.4.3; while another clock with Urania, also signed by Robin, based slightly closer on Foullet's drawing, was sold anonymously, Christie's Monaco, 13 December 1998, lot 344 (FF 69,000).