CIRCA 1728-30, THE CONTEMPORARY GILT-BRASS MOVEMENT SIGNED L. LEHNERT :· BUDISSIN:·

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A MEISSEN GILT-METAL MOUNTED CHINOISERIE CLOCK
CIRCA 1728-30, THE CONTEMPORARY GILT-BRASS MOVEMENT SIGNED L. Lehnert :· Budissin:·
Modelled by Gottlieb Kirchner, with a flat back, spreading sides and concave front, the canted corners with scrolls above and below supporting seated putti and female figures, surmounted by a female figure of Time seated on a gilt-tiled pagoda roof above a band of tasselled gilt lambrequins, the front with a large suspended gilt-edged drape with scalloped medallions, the centre mounted with a white enamel dial with black Roman numerals, outer Arabic five minute divisions and blued steel beetle poker hands, the frosted gilt chain fusee movement with verge escapement and pierced balanced cock, in a circular hinged tasselled mount, the concave lower part painted by J.G. Höroldt with two vignettes of Orientals, the sides with elongated fielded panels painted with Orientals above small chinoiserie vignettes on gilt scroll supports, the back with a rectangular aperture and hinge recesses (door lacking, broken through roof and sides and restuck, with some areas of restoration along breaks, all figures with associated damages and repairs, some areas of wear to gilding)
12 7/8 in. (32.8 cm.) high

来源

Anon., sale Jürg Stuker, Berne, 25th November 1954, lot 469 (2,600 Swiss Francs).

注意事项

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

拍品专文

Lehnert worked at Budissin near Dresden in the first half of the 18th Century.

Gottlieb Kirchner made two versions of this model in 1727 which are mentioned in his workbook for 22nd October 1927; 'Ist von dem Former Fritzsche voritzo ein Uhrgehäuse mit feinen Zierrathen und allerhand Figuren, als worzu der Bildhauer Kirchner ein Modell gegeben, gefertiget worden, so ein gut Aussehen hat, und hoffet man, dass dieses nach erfolgten Gutbrenen ohne defect zu erhalten seyn werde'.

A similar example with a stand was sold in these Rooms on 9th October 1973, lot 215. See also Ulrich Pietsch, 'Frühes Meissener Porzellan' Deutsches Keramikmuseum, Düsseldorf and Zwinger, Dresden Exhibition Catalogue (Munich, 1997), pp. 46-47, no. 23, and Ludwig Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Porzellansammlung Gustav von Klemperer (Dresden, 1928), pl. 44, no. 480 for similar examples. Another example (without a movement but with a stand) is illustrated by Ingelore Handt and Hilde Rakebrand, Meissner Porzellan des Achtzehnten Jahrhunderts 1710-1750 (Dresden, 1956), pl. 75. A variant model, without the putti and a male figure above, was sold in these Rooms on 6th July 1970, lot 124.