Lot Essay
Claude-Joseph Desgodets, mâitre in 1749
Claude-Joseph Desgodets (fl.1740-76), of the rue des Vieux Augustins, specialised in clock-cases, employing leading bronziers such as Jean-Joseph de St. Germain to execute the bronze doré. In 1745 Desgodets denounced the ébéniste Jean Goyer (mâitre in 1760) for plagiarizing his designs
It is interesting to note that Sir Richard Wallace retained a wall-barometer and thermometer, identically mounted but in parquetry rather than Boulle marquetry, in his collection at Hertford House, London (see F.J.B. Watson, op. cit.). Watson noted that a similar barometer by Lange de Bourbon was in the Mme. Louis Burat sale in Paris, 18 June 1937, lot 98. A further parquetry barometer was sold by the Trustees of Lord Hillingdon in these Rooms, 29 June 1972, lot 58
A barometer of this exact model, the dial signed by Cazartelli, is in the State Dining Room at Longleat House, Wiltshire, in the collection of the Marquess of Bath
Claude-Joseph Desgodets (fl.1740-76), of the rue des Vieux Augustins, specialised in clock-cases, employing leading bronziers such as Jean-Joseph de St. Germain to execute the bronze doré. In 1745 Desgodets denounced the ébéniste Jean Goyer (mâitre in 1760) for plagiarizing his designs
It is interesting to note that Sir Richard Wallace retained a wall-barometer and thermometer, identically mounted but in parquetry rather than Boulle marquetry, in his collection at Hertford House, London (see F.J.B. Watson, op. cit.). Watson noted that a similar barometer by Lange de Bourbon was in the Mme. Louis Burat sale in Paris, 18 June 1937, lot 98. A further parquetry barometer was sold by the Trustees of Lord Hillingdon in these Rooms, 29 June 1972, lot 58
A barometer of this exact model, the dial signed by Cazartelli, is in the State Dining Room at Longleat House, Wiltshire, in the collection of the Marquess of Bath