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Lot Essay
The dial and movement are signed by either Jean-Baptiste II Dutertre, maître 1735 or most likely by his son Jean-Baptiste III Dutertre (maître 1758. The later died in 1778, providing a ? . The dial was jewel-enamelled by Joseph Coteau (1740-1801). The dial rep[resents an updating of this clock in the Louis XVI period. Alternatively, this could be the original movement, had the clock case been kept in stock and not fitted by a movement and dial by the 1770s.
Originally from Geneva, Coteau claimed that he had found a method d'appliquer solidement l'or marié avec les émaux de toutes couleurs sur la porcelaine, and by 1780 his name first appears in the kiln records at Sèvres
As R. Savill discusses in The Wallace Collection Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain, London, 1988, III, p. 972-4, however, the process of jewelled enamelling for soft and hard-paste porcelain was introduced at Sèvres as early as 1778 by Parpette. The goût for enamelled Sèvres was, however, shortlived, virtually disappearing by 1786.
Coteau was appointed 'Peintre-émailleur du roi et de la Manufacture Royale de Sèvres circa 1780, and by 1784 his production was considerable, receiving 4520 livres from the Manufacture de Sèvres for executed commissions.
A Louis XVI gilt-bronze and Jewelled Sevres Porcelain Mantel clock signed coteau 1783 was sold by the Marquess of Cholmondeley, works of art from Houghton, Christie's London 8 December 1994, lot 46.
Originally from Geneva, Coteau claimed that he had found a method d'appliquer solidement l'or marié avec les émaux de toutes couleurs sur la porcelaine, and by 1780 his name first appears in the kiln records at Sèvres
As R. Savill discusses in The Wallace Collection Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain, London, 1988, III, p. 972-4, however, the process of jewelled enamelling for soft and hard-paste porcelain was introduced at Sèvres as early as 1778 by Parpette. The goût for enamelled Sèvres was, however, shortlived, virtually disappearing by 1786.
Coteau was appointed 'Peintre-émailleur du roi et de la Manufacture Royale de Sèvres circa 1780, and by 1784 his production was considerable, receiving 4520 livres from the Manufacture de Sèvres for executed commissions.
A Louis XVI gilt-bronze and Jewelled Sevres Porcelain Mantel clock signed coteau 1783 was sold by the Marquess of Cholmondeley, works of art from Houghton, Christie's London 8 December 1994, lot 46.