A directoire ormolu, patinated bronze and white-marble pendule a l'amerique

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A directoire ormolu, patinated bronze and white-marble pendule a l'amerique
The beaded bezel to the circular white-enamelled dial with Roman chapters and Arabic numerals, with metal moon hands and twin-going barrel, the movement with silk-suspended pendulum outside countwheel strike on a bell, surmounted by a huntress wearing a leafy skirt, earrings and strands of beads around her neck and arms, an arrow and spear in her hands and a quiver with arrows on her back, flanked by a palm tree and a crawling reptile, the apron with a mount with female youths, above a spreading arched support with foliage and birds, on hairy claw feet, the rectangular white marble base mounted with a relief plaque depicting a pastoral scene, on toupie feet, minor restorations
63cm. high x 41cm. wide x 15cm. deep

來源

Anonymous sale, Christie's New York, 18 May 1987, lot 33.
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's Monte Carlo, 3 March 1990, lot 10.
Souvenirs Princiers, Poulain le Fur Paris, 2 December 1996, lot 162.

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拍品專文

A design for a figure of America was made by Jean Simon Deverberie (1764-1824) during the Directoire period. This style was to become known as the pendules au bon sauvage or style Deverberie. Between 1795 and 1815 several different designs were made in this genre. It's popularity reflected the increased interest in Europe for all things exotic. People came to view these little known "savages" as peoples who were good at heart and lived close to nature. These views were influenced by the literature of the day - for example Jean-Jacques Rousseau - and travel journals. This particular model shows many similarities with the pendule à l'Afrique. They are differentiated by their attributes. The attributes that identify America are the stylised alligator which refers to the Rio de la Plata in South America and the palm tree. A design which Deverberie executed in 1799 can be found in H. Ottomeyer and P. Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, 1986, vol. I, p. 381, fig. 5.15.28.
Literature:
P. Kjellberg, Encyclopédie de la pendule française du moyenage au XXe siècle, Paris 1997, p. 342-352.
E. Niehüser, Die französische Bronzeuhr: Eine Typologie der figürlichen Darstellungen; von Göttern, Helden, edlen Wilden..., Munich 1997.

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