Lot Essay
Probably Louis Montjoye, who flourished 1747-89.
This clock is closely related to that surmounted by an orrery, which was supplied for the bedchamber of Cardinal Fesch to Fontainebleau by Lepaute on 22 November 1804 (J.P. Samoyault, Pendules et bronzes d'ameublement entrés sous le Premier Empire, Paris, 1989, p. 46, fig. 1. A similar clock, depicting a studious youth seated by a pilaster clock-case surmounted by a cockerel, illustrated in Tardy, La Pendule Française, Paris, 1967/69, vol. II, p. 249.
A further model surmounted by a cockerel was sold anonymously at Christie's New York, 18 May 1989, lot 15.
This clock is closely related to that surmounted by an orrery, which was supplied for the bedchamber of Cardinal Fesch to Fontainebleau by Lepaute on 22 November 1804 (J.P. Samoyault, Pendules et bronzes d'ameublement entrés sous le Premier Empire, Paris, 1989, p. 46, fig. 1. A similar clock, depicting a studious youth seated by a pilaster clock-case surmounted by a cockerel, illustrated in Tardy, La Pendule Française, Paris, 1967/69, vol. II, p. 249.
A further model surmounted by a cockerel was sold anonymously at Christie's New York, 18 May 1989, lot 15.