A NIDERVILLER BLUE-GROUND VASE CLOCK (PENDULE À CERCLES TOURNANTE)

Details
A NIDERVILLER BLUE-GROUND VASE CLOCK (PENDULE À CERCLES TOURNANTE)
CIRCA 1752, SIGNED ARNOULD PERE A NANCY

The oviform vase with waisted pyramidal cover applied with acanthus, painted with small landscape vignettes and applied with biscuit garlands suspended from female mask handles, cover with restored rim chip, chips to garlands, vase restored at socle
14 3/8in. (36.5cm.) high
Provenance
Anon. Sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc., 8 March 1979, Lot 234

Lot Essay

See Tardy, La Pendule Française, 2ème Partie: Du Louis XVI à nos jours, Paris, 1975, p. 288, no. 6 for a similar example in the Musée Nissim de Camondo, Paris also signed by Nicholas Arnould and painted with landscapes on a blue ground and p. 289, pl. 1 for a white-ground example in the collection of G. Hudelot signed Garrigues à Marseilles

Other examples are recorded in the Collections of a private collector (M. Georges Blumenthal, Paris, 1 December 1932, Lot 493) of Madame La Comtesse Chandon de Briailles (Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 8 May 1935, lot 65) and of J.P. Morgan (Parke Bernet & Co., Inc., New York, 8 January 1944, Lot 93).