A Restoration mahogany, bronze and ormolu-mounted month-going table regulator with coup perdu escapement

HENRY NEVEU DE LEPAUTE A PARIS, CIRCA 1825

Details

A Restoration mahogany, bronze and ormolu-mounted month-going table regulator with coup perdu escapement
Henry Neveu de Lepaute A Paris, circa 1825
The case with detachable stepped top with foliate cast ormolu mount to the frieze supported on bronze and ormolu-mounted herms, glazed sides, spring-loaded pin-hole catch to the rear door, convex glazing to the ormolu bezel cast with egg-and-dart decoration, the circular white enamel Roman dial signed Henry Neu. de Lepaute A Paris, blued moon hour and minute hands and counterpoised sweep centre seconds, the high quality twin barrel movement with circular plates and four back-pinned pillars, countwheel strike on bell above, coup perdu escapement mounted on the back-plate with a knife-edge suspended grid-iron pendulum with beat adjustment to the crutchpiece, the back-plate stamped J.J.h Lepaute à Paris. .18c/XIX + 3
18 in. (46 cm.) high

Lot Essay

Jean-Joseph Lepaute, 1769-1846 was the great nephew of the founder of the Lepaute dynasty Jean-andré Lepaute
Jean-Joseph joined the company as junior partner to Pierre-Basil Lepaute who was the son of Jean-andré's brother Joseph. The partnership was perhaps the most fruitful of them all and together they made a great number of pieces for the Châteaux of the Tuilleries St. Cloud, Trianon and Fontainebleau. In 1811 the firm divided and Pierre-Basil formed a new partnership with his son Pierre-Michel under the name of Lepaute Fils.
Jean-Joseph later took on Augustin-Michel who was the son of Pierre-Henri who had married Jean-André Lepaute's sister Elizabeth. Pierre later changed his name to Henri Neveu Lepaute and married Annais, the daughter of Jean-Joseph.
The present table regulator would appear to have been produced during the Jean-Joseph's partnership with Augustin-Michel.

More from Clocks

View All