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Lot Essay
The signature of Barancourt on the dial probably refers to Michel-Pierre Barancourt, who became maître in 1779.
This celebrated model of Clock supported by Europa and the Bull is displayed in several collections, an identical example signed by Jean-Joseph de Saint-Germain and originating from the château de Saint-Cloud and the château Tuileries, is exhibited at the Musée du Louvre, Paris (H. Ottomeyer, P. Pröschel, et al., Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, vol. I, p. 125, fig. 2.8.8). Related models with slight variants in the foliage and form from the collections at Schloss Aschaffenburg and the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, are illustrated, ibid. figs. 2.8.7 and 2.8.9.
A related clock, sold in these Rooms, 5 July 1973, lot 31, and now in the J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, California, is illustrated in A. Sassoon and G. Wilson, Decorative Arts, A Handbook of the Collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, 1986, p. 41, fig. 88.
This celebrated model of Clock supported by Europa and the Bull is displayed in several collections, an identical example signed by Jean-Joseph de Saint-Germain and originating from the château de Saint-Cloud and the château Tuileries, is exhibited at the Musée du Louvre, Paris (H. Ottomeyer, P. Pröschel, et al., Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, vol. I, p. 125, fig. 2.8.8). Related models with slight variants in the foliage and form from the collections at Schloss Aschaffenburg and the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, are illustrated, ibid. figs. 2.8.7 and 2.8.9.
A related clock, sold in these Rooms, 5 July 1973, lot 31, and now in the J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, California, is illustrated in A. Sassoon and G. Wilson, Decorative Arts, A Handbook of the Collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, 1986, p. 41, fig. 88.