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Lot Essay
Etienne Rosse is recorded as Horloger de la Ville in Evreux in 1813, and as making a complicated astronomical regulator with seven dials. Rosse Aîné, probably the same maker, is recorded in Paris, rue Vieille du Temple (1830) and then rue de St-Quentin. He was awarded a bronze medal in 1849.
Case mounts of apparently identical design may be seen on a mahogany table regulator by Lory illustrated in D. Roberts, Precision Pendulum Clocks: France, Germany, America and Recent Advancements, Atglen, 2004, p. 99, fig. 31-14B and on another by Bourdier, in the Spanish royal collection, p. 77, fig. 29-13. Roberts also illustrates similar cases with 'Egyptian' monopodiae.
Etienne Gobin, known as Dubuisson (d. circa 1822), watch and clock enameller, worked at Chantilly and Sèvres as a flower painter. He is later recorded in the Rue de la Huchette in the 1790s before moving to Rue de la Calandre around 1812. See also lots 563 and 569.
Case mounts of apparently identical design may be seen on a mahogany table regulator by Lory illustrated in D. Roberts, Precision Pendulum Clocks: France, Germany, America and Recent Advancements, Atglen, 2004, p. 99, fig. 31-14B and on another by Bourdier, in the Spanish royal collection, p. 77, fig. 29-13. Roberts also illustrates similar cases with 'Egyptian' monopodiae.
Etienne Gobin, known as Dubuisson (d. circa 1822), watch and clock enameller, worked at Chantilly and Sèvres as a flower painter. He is later recorded in the Rue de la Huchette in the 1790s before moving to Rue de la Calandre around 1812. See also lots 563 and 569.