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Lot Essay
Etienne II Lenoir (maître in 1717) and his son Pierre-Etienne (maître in 1743) worked together from 1750 to 1771 and their production is indistinguishable.
The C couronné poinçon was a tax mark employed in France between March 1745 and February 1749 on any alloy containing copper.
This model of clock-case, perhaps best known in bracket form celebrating the Triumph of Love with a Cupid cresting, but otherwise identical, belongs to a group that can be attributed to the fondeur Edmé-Jean Gallien. Elected maître 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 ébéniste Jean-François 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.
Three further bracket clocks of this model are recorded, two of which were formerly in the Fremersdorf Collection. These comprise:- one with movement by Guillaume Dauthiau, illustrated in Tardy, La Pendule Française, Paris, 3rd ed., 1967, col.pl. after p.188; the other, also stamped with the 'C' couronné poinçon 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. The final example was sold from the Alexander Collection, Christie's New York, 30 April 1999, lot 19 ($56,500).
The C couronné poinçon was a tax mark employed in France between March 1745 and February 1749 on any alloy containing copper.
This model of clock-case, perhaps best known in bracket form celebrating the Triumph of Love with a Cupid cresting, but otherwise identical, belongs to a group that can be attributed to the fondeur Edmé-Jean Gallien. Elected maître 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 ébéniste Jean-François 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.
Three further bracket clocks of this model are recorded, two of which were formerly in the Fremersdorf Collection. These comprise:- one with movement by Guillaume Dauthiau, illustrated in Tardy, La Pendule Française, Paris, 3rd ed., 1967, col.pl. after p.188; the other, also stamped with the 'C' couronné poinçon 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. The final example was sold from the Alexander Collection, Christie's New York, 30 April 1999, lot 19 ($56,500).