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Lot Essay
Louis-Jacques Prieur, matre in 1752
The watercolor design for this model, shown above, possibly by Louis Prieur, is in the Muse des Arts Dcoratifs, Paris.
Other examples of this distinguished model are in the Royal Palace, Stockholm (H. Ottomeyer/P. Proschel et. al., Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, vol I, p. 241, fig. 4.5.5.) and the Cleveland Museum of Art (44.469-70). The model was especially popular with the French Royal Family. A pair decorated Madame Adelade's grand cabinet at Bellevue and another pair, supplied to the comte de Provence at the Palais du Luxembourg was seized during the Revolution. A further pair, possibly the same, was sent to the Palais de Fontainebleau in 1806 and is discussed in J.-P. Samoyault, Muse National du Chteau de Fontainbleau, Catalogue des Collections de Mobilier. I. Pendules et Bronzes d'ameublement entrs sous le Premier Empire, Paris, 1989, p. 130.
The Lurcy sale catalogue is included in lot 327.
The watercolor design for this model, shown above, possibly by Louis Prieur, is in the Muse des Arts Dcoratifs, Paris.
Other examples of this distinguished model are in the Royal Palace, Stockholm (H. Ottomeyer/P. Proschel et. al., Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, vol I, p. 241, fig. 4.5.5.) and the Cleveland Museum of Art (44.469-70). The model was especially popular with the French Royal Family. A pair decorated Madame Adelade's grand cabinet at Bellevue and another pair, supplied to the comte de Provence at the Palais du Luxembourg was seized during the Revolution. A further pair, possibly the same, was sent to the Palais de Fontainebleau in 1806 and is discussed in J.-P. Samoyault, Muse National du Chteau de Fontainbleau, Catalogue des Collections de Mobilier. I. Pendules et Bronzes d'ameublement entrs sous le Premier Empire, Paris, 1989, p. 130.
The Lurcy sale catalogue is included in lot 327.