A LOUIS XVI PASTE SET ORMOLU AND CAMPAN MELANGE MARBLE LYRE CLOCK
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A LOUIS XVI PASTE SET ORMOLU AND CAMPAN MELANGE MARBLE LYRE CLOCK

THE MOVEMENT BY JEAN-SIMON BOURDIER, THE ENAMELLED DIAL BY DUBUISSON, 18TH CENTURY

细节
A LOUIS XVI PASTE SET ORMOLU AND CAMPAN MELANGE MARBLE LYRE CLOCK
The movement by Jean-Simon Bourdier, the enamelled dial by Dubuisson, 18th Century
The circular white enamel Roman dial with gilt-decorated Arabic calendar ring signed 'Bourdier' and 'Dubui', with pierced gilt-metal lyre-shaped hands incorporating the monogram 'B', the movement with anchor escapement, within a lyre-shaped pierced case mounted with scrolling foliage and anthemion, surmounted by a figure of Pegasus flanked by griffon's heads bearing floral swags, above a spreading base and a stepped rectangular and acanthus-cast plinth and bun feet, the bell inscribed 'LA'
23¼ in. (59 in.) high; 7½ in. (19 cm.) wide; 5 in. (12.5 cm.) deep
来源
Christie's New York, 26 April 1990, lot 21 ($30,800).
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拍品专文

Jean-Simon Bourdier, maître horloger in 1787.

The clock pattern is likely to have been inspired by the engraving of 'Apollo' on Mt Helicon (illustrated in C.N. Cochin, Iconologie par Figures, Paris, 1757, book 1, no.27). An ormolu-mounted Sèvres porcelain 'lyre' clock, dated 1787 was supplied for the Salon des Jeux at Versailles (see P. Verlet, Les Bronzes Dorés Français du XVIIIeme Siècle, Paris, 1987, p.459).

Etienne Gobin, known as Dubuisson (died circa 1822), watch and clock enameller, worked at Chantilly and Sèvres as a flower painter. He is later recorded in the Rue de la Huchette in the 1790s before moving to Rue de la Calandre around 1812. Duboisson's name has been recorded on a number of Sèvres clocks of this form.