EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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AN EMPIRE ORMOLU AND PATINATED-BRONZE PENDULE 'AU MATELOT'
EARLY 19TH CENTURY
The case modelled with a standing negro figure with a pipe flanked by a bale of cotton containing the movement, the restored white enamel Roman dial inscribed Gustaf Unden, blued steel moon hands, the eight day twin barrel movement with silk suspension and countwheel strike on bell on a canted rectangular base with the front cast in relief emblematic of the cotton trade, the barrow stamped No 35, on barrel feet; pendulum; key
35.5 cm. high

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Lot Essay

This clock is after a design by De Verberie inscribed Le Matelot in the Cahier de Dessin de Pendules of the Cabinet des Estampes, Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris (of which some designs are illustrated in H. Ottomeyer, P.Proschel et al., Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, Vol.I, p.381, fig. 5.15.28). Several of the designs are inscribed by De Verberie, the marchand-mercier who in 1804 had a shop at the Boulevard du Temple.

A pen and ink drawing of this model inscribed Michel, no.120 aoust de dépot legal is in the Cabinet des Estampes, Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris. This same model is illustrated in Pierre Kjellberg, Encyclopédie de la Pendule Français du Moyen Age au XXe Siècle, Paris, 1997, p.343, pl.A.

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