A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU AND WHITE MARBLE MANTEL CLOCK

THE DIAL SIGNED 'COTEAU', LATE 18TH CENTURY

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A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU AND WHITE MARBLE MANTEL CLOCK
THE DIAL SIGNED 'COTEAU', LATE 18TH CENTURY
The circular white-enamelled black and gilt-decorated dial, marked with Arabic numerals, chiming on the half hour, the movement with twin spring barrels, anchor escapement and silk suspension and counterweight strike on bell, on floral swaggs, flanked by a figure of a woman playing a harp and a putto holding a basket of flowers, above a central relief of putti playing and a further black marble base and turned feet, the dial signed under the '6'
17 in. (43 cm.) high, 13½ in. (34.5 cm.) wide, 5¼ in. (13.5 cm.) deep

Provenance

with Partridge, London.
with Georges de Batz, New York.

Lot Essay

Joseph Coteau (1740 - 1801) supplied dials for the great clockmakers of France. He became maître in 1778 and maître-peintre-é mailleur at the Académie de St.-Luc in Geneva in 1766 and moved to Paris in 1772, where he was installed in the rue Poupie. He claimed to have found a method 'd'appliquer solidement l'or marié avec les émaux de toutes couleurs sur la porcelaine', the 'jewelled' effect on porcelain and enamel, and by 1780 his name first appears in the kiln records at Sèvres. By 1784 his production at Sèvres was considerable, receiving 4520 livres for executed commissions.

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