Lot Essay
Either Nicolas-Alexandre Folin, maître en 1784 or his son, flourishing in the rue de Grenier Saint-lazare in 1800
This model A La Sauvage is after the drawing, dated L'An VI for 1799, in the Bibliotheque National, Paris (illustrated in H. Ottomeyer and P. Proschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich 1986, p. 381, fig. 5.15.28). Inscribed De Verberie, for the marchand-mercier who in 1799 had a shop at the Boulevard du Temple where he sold clocks à l'Americaine, this design represents America in a series of the continents.
Closely related mantel clocks were sold anonymously at Sotheby's Monaco, 19-20 June 1992 lot 7, lot 761 and Sotheby's New York, 3 May 1986, lot 2
This model A La Sauvage is after the drawing, dated L'An VI for 1799, in the Bibliotheque National, Paris (illustrated in H. Ottomeyer and P. Proschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich 1986, p. 381, fig. 5.15.28). Inscribed De Verberie, for the marchand-mercier who in 1799 had a shop at the Boulevard du Temple where he sold clocks à l'Americaine, this design represents America in a series of the continents.
Closely related mantel clocks were sold anonymously at Sotheby's Monaco, 19-20 June 1992 lot 7, lot 761 and Sotheby's New York, 3 May 1986, lot 2