PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF MICHAEL L. ROSENBERG (Lots 1183-1192) Michael L. Rosenberg (1947-2003) was a generous philanthropist and a passionate supporter of the arts, who endowed a number of key cultural and educational institutions in Dallas. He served on the executive committee of the Dallas Symphony where he endowed the concertmaster's chair. He was on the board of the of the Meadows School of Arts at Southern Methodist University, where he sponsored summer educational programs for children and was a generous supporter of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School. He also served on the governing board of the Dallas Museum of Art, where he funded the assistant curatorship of European art. An enthusiastic collector of fine art, he assembled in a relatively short period of time an outstanding collection of predominantly French furniture and Old Master Paintings. The majority of the collection will be displayed on long-term loan at the Dallas Museum of Art by the Michael L. Rosenberg Foundation, and the present works are being sold to benefit the on-going work of the Foundation.

A LOUIS XV ORMOLU STRIKING MANTEL CLOCK

MID-18TH CENTURY

Details

A LOUIS XV ORMOLU STRIKING MANTEL CLOCK
MID-18TH CENTURY
The circular enamel dial with roman and arabic chapters signed CHARLES DUTERTRE A PARIS, with 8-day twin barrel movement with calibrated countwheel strike on bell, within a pierced scrolling foliate case surmounted by blossoming vines above a ribbon-entwined armorial trophy before a glazed panel, the sides with pierced trellis panels on scrolling foliate-cast feet and a serpentine base cast with rockwork on pierced scrolling foliate supports, the movement signed accordingly, bell lacking
17 in. (43 cm.) high, 11½ in. (29 cm.) wide, 8½ in. (21.5 cm.) deep

Provenance

Albert Meyer.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 26 April 1994, lot 121.

Lot Essay

Charles-Nicholas Dutertre, maître in 1758.

A virtually identical mantel clock by Jean-Joseph de Saint-Germain with slight variations to the cresting and rockwork base is illustrated in H. Ottomeyer, P. Pröschel, et al., Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, vol. I, p. 128, fig. 2.8.15.

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