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Lot Essay
Auvier is apparently unrecorded.
This cartel wall-clock, with a youth seated in a rose-festooned arbour, reflects the Louis XV picturesque style popularised by Juste-Aurèle Meissonier (d.1750). The design relates to that attributed to either Robert Osmond or Pierre-Antoine Foullet, which is now in the Bibliothèque Doucet, Paris (illustrated in H. Ottomeyer, P. Prûschel et al., Vergoldete Bronzen, p. 184, fig. 3.8.8.). This design is thought to have been taken up by the bronzier Robert Osmond between 1755 and 1760.
This specific model of cartel seems to have been executed with differing and interchangeable attributes, including a Chinoiserie figure in the cresting (Christie's London, 9 June 1994, lot 83) and cooing doves perched at the base of the lower apperture (Christie's, Monaco, 21 June 1998, lot 607). The boy seated at the base does, however, appear to be original on this cartel.
This cartel wall-clock, with a youth seated in a rose-festooned arbour, reflects the Louis XV picturesque style popularised by Juste-Aurèle Meissonier (d.1750). The design relates to that attributed to either Robert Osmond or Pierre-Antoine Foullet, which is now in the Bibliothèque Doucet, Paris (illustrated in H. Ottomeyer, P. Prûschel et al., Vergoldete Bronzen, p. 184, fig. 3.8.8.). This design is thought to have been taken up by the bronzier Robert Osmond between 1755 and 1760.
This specific model of cartel seems to have been executed with differing and interchangeable attributes, including a Chinoiserie figure in the cresting (Christie's London, 9 June 1994, lot 83) and cooing doves perched at the base of the lower apperture (Christie's, Monaco, 21 June 1998, lot 607). The boy seated at the base does, however, appear to be original on this cartel.