拍品专文
Jean-Baptiste-Albert Baillon, fils de maître in 1727.
This celebrated model is displayed in several public collections; one of exactly the same model by Robert Osmond is exhibited in the Aschaffenburg Schloss and illustrated in H. Ottomeyer , P. Pröschel et al.,, Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, vol. 1, p. 125, fig. 2.8.7, while related models with slight variants in the foliage and form from the Louvre and the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge are illustrated in H. Ottomeyer, P. Pröschel et al., op. cit, vol. I, p. 125, figs. 2.8.8 and 2.8.9.
A closely related clock, sold anonymously in these Rooms, 5 July 1973, lot 31 and now in the J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, California, (Accession number 73.DB.85), is illustrated and discussed in A. Sassoon and G. Wilson, Decorative Arts, A Handbook of the Collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, 1986, p. 41, fig. 88.
Two mantel clocks of related model, one signed St. Germain were offered Christie's Monaco, 16 June 1990, lots 218 and 167.
The clock, designed in the Louis XV picturesque manner, celebrates the Triumph of Love and derives from Ovid's Metamorphoses concerning plants, animals and the pagan gods ability to commune with mortals. Jupiter, the father of the gods, is represented as the loving abductor, who, seeing the nymph Europa gathering flowers by the shore, adopted the guise of a bull to carry her away to the consternation of her companions
This celebrated model is displayed in several public collections; one of exactly the same model by Robert Osmond is exhibited in the Aschaffenburg Schloss and illustrated in H. Ottomeyer , P. Pröschel et al.,, Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, vol. 1, p. 125, fig. 2.8.7, while related models with slight variants in the foliage and form from the Louvre and the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge are illustrated in H. Ottomeyer, P. Pröschel et al., op. cit, vol. I, p. 125, figs. 2.8.8 and 2.8.9.
A closely related clock, sold anonymously in these Rooms, 5 July 1973, lot 31 and now in the J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, California, (Accession number 73.DB.85), is illustrated and discussed in A. Sassoon and G. Wilson, Decorative Arts, A Handbook of the Collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, 1986, p. 41, fig. 88.
Two mantel clocks of related model, one signed St. Germain were offered Christie's Monaco, 16 June 1990, lots 218 and 167.
The clock, designed in the Louis XV picturesque manner, celebrates the Triumph of Love and derives from Ovid's Metamorphoses concerning plants, animals and the pagan gods ability to commune with mortals. Jupiter, the father of the gods, is represented as the loving abductor, who, seeing the nymph Europa gathering flowers by the shore, adopted the guise of a bull to carry her away to the consternation of her companions