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拍品专文
This ormolu-enriched bronze mantelpiece garniture, designed in the goût Étrusque fashionable in the 1780's, features a lightly clad youth and his companion studying by the light of Roman lamps, which also serve as their couches. For a related example see H. Ottomeyer and P. Pröschel et al., Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, vol. I, p. 294, fig. 4.17.1. A related scroll-handled lamp surmounted by a female figure, perhaps emblematic of History, features as the garniture of a mantelpiece in a drawing in the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris (see J. Bourne and V. Brett, Lighting in the Domestic Interior, 1991, fig. 530).
Models for Le Philosophe, La Lectrice and L'Etude in porcelain were first executed for a Lampe antique in 1780 by Louis-Simon Boizot (d. 1809), who was Sculpteur du Roi. He succeeded Etienne Falconet as Director of Sculpture at the Royal Sèvres Manufactory in 1773 and later worked in conjunction with the celebrated bronzier Pierre-Philippe Thomire (see E. Bourgeois, Le Biscuit de Sèvres, Paris, 1909, vol. II, p. 22). They also feature on a clock-model, known as L'Etude et la Philosophie for which the bronzier François Rémond (maître in 1774) produced a design commissioned by the marchand-mercier Dominique Daguerre (see C. Jagger, Royal Clocks, London, 1983, p. 155).
Another example of this model has been sold from the collection of the late Sir Robert Abdy, Bt., in these Rooms, 9 June 1994, lot 65 (£29,900).
Models for Le Philosophe, La Lectrice and L'Etude in porcelain were first executed for a Lampe antique in 1780 by Louis-Simon Boizot (d. 1809), who was Sculpteur du Roi. He succeeded Etienne Falconet as Director of Sculpture at the Royal Sèvres Manufactory in 1773 and later worked in conjunction with the celebrated bronzier Pierre-Philippe Thomire (see E. Bourgeois, Le Biscuit de Sèvres, Paris, 1909, vol. II, p. 22). They also feature on a clock-model, known as L'Etude et la Philosophie for which the bronzier François Rémond (maître in 1774) produced a design commissioned by the marchand-mercier Dominique Daguerre (see C. Jagger, Royal Clocks, London, 1983, p. 155).
Another example of this model has been sold from the collection of the late Sir Robert Abdy, Bt., in these Rooms, 9 June 1994, lot 65 (£29,900).