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Lot Essay
Robert Osmond, maître-fondeur en terre et sable in 1746.
This model is based on no. 77 in Osmond's Livre de Desseins of 1775, 'Piece a portail grande architecture avec 1 genie' (see H. Ottomeyer/P. Pröschel et al., Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, vol. I, p. 229). A closely related clock, the case also signed by Osmond, was supplied by the marchand-mercier Simon-Philippe Poirier in 1777 to Louis XVI's younger brother, the comte d'Artois, for the salon des jeux in his apartments at the Palais du Temple, Paris (see La Folie d'Artois, Paris, 1988, p. 108, fig. 18).
Variations of the model were also used to adorn the tops of cartonniers and serre-papiers, an example of which is in the Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris (illustrated in P. Verlet, Les Bronzes Dorées du XVIIIe Siècle , Paris, 1987, p. 117, fig. 148). Another version of the model by Osmond, with black marble plinth, was supplie to Louis XVI for the Cabinet de la Pendule in Versailles, while a further example was sold Christie's New York, 19 March 1998, lot 157, ($38,000 exc. premium).
This model is based on no. 77 in Osmond's Livre de Desseins of 1775, 'Piece a portail grande architecture avec 1 genie' (see H. Ottomeyer/P. Pröschel et al., Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, vol. I, p. 229). A closely related clock, the case also signed by Osmond, was supplied by the marchand-mercier Simon-Philippe Poirier in 1777 to Louis XVI's younger brother, the comte d'Artois, for the salon des jeux in his apartments at the Palais du Temple, Paris (see La Folie d'Artois, Paris, 1988, p. 108, fig. 18).
Variations of the model were also used to adorn the tops of cartonniers and serre-papiers, an example of which is in the Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris (illustrated in P. Verlet, Les Bronzes Dorées du XVIII