A LATE LOUIS XV/LOUIS XVI TRANSITIONAL ORMOLU-MOUNTED GREEN AND POLYCHROME VERNIS MARTIN BRACKET CLOCK

CIRCA 1771, THE DIAL SIGNED ANDR FURET A PARIS, THE BRACKET STAMPED VANDENARSSE

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A LATE LOUIS XV/LOUIS XVI TRANSITIONAL ORMOLU-MOUNTED GREEN AND POLYCHROME VERNIS MARTIN BRACKET CLOCK
Circa 1771, the dial signed Andr Furet A PARIS, the bracket stamped VANDENARSSE
Decorated overall with roses and floral sprays, the circular glazed enamelled dial with Roman and Arabic chapters, glazed apperture centered below to display motion of the pendulum, the domed floral cresting centered by a sunflower, the sides with pierced scrolls and trailing foliage above a border of ribbon-tied laurel leaves, on paw feet, the tapering bracket headed by tamed rams' masks and rosettes and decorated overall with blossoming foliage and a sheep and a goat standing by a tree, above a berried foliate boss, the movement signed Andr Furet AParis and with silk-suspension and countwheel strike on a bell, with French & Company inventory number 37375
36in. (93cm.) high, 15in. (39cm.) wide

来源

Acuired from E.Ruegg by French and Co. on 10 September 1930.
Acquired from French and Co. by Marcel Bissey, Paris, on 16 May 1959 ($1,850).

拍品专文

Silvain-Lambert Vandernasse, matre in 1771

Either Jean-Andr Furet (c.1690-c.1778), mitre 1 December 1710, who worked notably for the Court of Augustus II of Saxony, or his brother, Jean-Baptiste Andr Furet (c.1720-1807), mitre 18 November 1746, appointed Horloger Ordinaire du Roi pour sa Bibliothque in 1758. Recorded in the rue Saint Honor in 1747, at the time of his bankruptcy in 1786 his stock included 98 clocks valued at 63,903 livres, including a model of the famous pendule la Ngresse, the first example of which was purchased by Marie-Antoinette.