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Lot Essay
The C couronn poinon was a tax mark employed in France between March 1745 and February 1749 on any alloy containing copper.
Probably Abraham Gilbert (died in 1752), mitre 1 October 1725, recorded at the Place Dauphine in 1724. Gilbert is known to have used cases by Latz and Saint-Germain.
Celebrating the Triumph of Love, this model of bracket clock belongs to a group that can be attributed to the fondeur Edm-Jean Gallien. Elected matre on 13 December 1747, Gallien was patronised by both Louis XV and Blondel de Gagny, and is known to have worked in collaboration with both the marchand-mercier Lazare Duvaux and the bniste Jean-Franois Oeben. A bracket clock of this model, signed by Gallien and formerly at Nasby Castle, Sweden, was sold from the Lamm Collection, American Art Galleries, New York, 21-22 February 1923, lot 892.
Two further examples of this model, both formerly in the Fremersdorf Collection, are recorded:- one, with movement by Guillaume Dauthiau, is illustrated in Tardy, La Pendule Franaise, Paris, 3rd ed., 1967, col.pl. after p.188; the other, also stamped with the 'C' couronn poinon and with movement by Julien Le Roy (appointed horloger du roi in 1739), was sold anonymously at Christie's London, 10 December 1992, lot 144.
Probably Abraham Gilbert (died in 1752), mitre 1 October 1725, recorded at the Place Dauphine in 1724. Gilbert is known to have used cases by Latz and Saint-Germain.
Celebrating the Triumph of Love, this model of bracket clock belongs to a group that can be attributed to the fondeur Edm-Jean Gallien. Elected matre on 13 December 1747, Gallien was patronised by both Louis XV and Blondel de Gagny, and is known to have worked in collaboration with both the marchand-mercier Lazare Duvaux and the bniste Jean-Franois Oeben. A bracket clock of this model, signed by Gallien and formerly at Nasby Castle, Sweden, was sold from the Lamm Collection, American Art Galleries, New York, 21-22 February 1923, lot 892.
Two further examples of this model, both formerly in the Fremersdorf Collection, are recorded:- one, with movement by Guillaume Dauthiau, is illustrated in Tardy, La Pendule Franaise, Paris, 3rd ed., 1967, col.pl. after p.188; the other, also stamped with the 'C' couronn poinon and with movement by Julien Le Roy (appointed horloger du roi in 1739), was sold anonymously at Christie's London, 10 December 1992, lot 144.