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Lot Essay
Adam L'Echopié is recorded in the rue Neuve des Petits Champs between 1772 and 1794, while L'Echopié l'aîné is recorded in the same street in 1812.
The two seated figures derive from the models of L'Etude et la Philosophie created by the Sèvres factory by Louis-Simon Boizot in 1780. The design is believed to have derived from one by Dominique Daguerre who commissioned the bronzier Franois Rémond to execute it in bronze in circa 1783. In 1788 Daguerre delivered two of these clocks to Louis XVI for the château de St. Cloud (P. Verlet, Les Bronzes Dorés Franais du XVIIIe Siècle, Paris, 1987, p. 322).
A mantel clock of nearly identical model but with white marble base was sold from The Estate of The 2nd Viscount Camrose, Hackwood Park, Basingstoke, Hampshire, Christie's house sale, 20-22 April 1998, lot 77.
The two seated figures derive from the models of L'Etude et la Philosophie created by the Sèvres factory by Louis-Simon Boizot in 1780. The design is believed to have derived from one by Dominique Daguerre who commissioned the bronzier Franois Rémond to execute it in bronze in circa 1783. In 1788 Daguerre delivered two of these clocks to Louis XVI for the château de St. Cloud (P. Verlet, Les Bronzes Dorés Franais du XVIIIe Siècle, Paris, 1987, p. 322).
A mantel clock of nearly identical model but with white marble base was sold from The Estate of The 2nd Viscount Camrose, Hackwood Park, Basingstoke, Hampshire, Christie's house sale, 20-22 April 1998, lot 77.