A FRENCH GILT-SEEDED BLUE-GROUND VASE CLOCK (PENDULE À CERCLES TOURNANTE)

19TH CENTURY, INCISED SCRIPT N MARK AND H

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A FRENCH GILT-SEEDED BLUE-GROUND VASE CLOCK (PENDULE À CERCLES TOURNANTE)
19th century, incised script N mark and H
Based on an 18th century model by Niderviller, the oviform vase with waisted pyramidal neck applied with stiff acanthus leaves and integral stopper with pinecone finial, painted front and back with a landscape vignette and applied with biscuit garlands suspended from female mask handles, black faux-marble base
14 3/8in. (36.5cm.) high

Lot Essay

See Tardy, La Pendule Française, 2eme Partie: Du Louis XVI ' nos jours, Paris, 1975, p. 288, no. 6 for the 18th century example from Niderviller in the Musée Nissim de Camondo, Paris signed by Nicholas Arnould and painted with landscapes on a blue ground and p. 289, pl. 1 for a white-ground example in the collection of G. Hudelot signed Garrigues à Marseilles.

Other examples are recorded in the Collections of a private collector (M. Georges Blumenthal, Paris, 1 December 1932, Lot 493) of Madame La Comtesse Chandon de Briailles (Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 8 May 1935, lot 65) and of J.P. Morgan (Parke Bernet & Co., Inc., New York, 8 January 1944, Lot 93).

See Property of a Texas Collector, Christie's, New York, 25/26 October 1994, lot 239 for an 18th century example also signed by Arnould.

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