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Lot Essay
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
Derek Roberts, Mystery, Novelty and Fantasy Clocks, Schiffer, 1999, p.74, fig.6-16a,b; Liao Pin, Clocks and Watches of the Qing Dynasty, From the Collection in the Forbidden City, Foreign Language Press, 2002, pp.130-131; Sotheby's New York, The Joseph M. Meraux Collection of Rare and Unusual Clocks, 28 June 1993, lot 69.
This clock closely resembles a model shown in the Exposition Universalle of 1900, subsequently described and illustrated by Planchon in the Revue Chronométrique of October 1900. The present clock differs from the examples in the Meraux collection (also illustrated in Roberts) and the Chinese Imperial collection, which are surmounted by Medici lions, one in gilded bronze and the other in patinated bronze.
Derek Roberts, Mystery, Novelty and Fantasy Clocks, Schiffer, 1999, p.74, fig.6-16a,b; Liao Pin, Clocks and Watches of the Qing Dynasty, From the Collection in the Forbidden City, Foreign Language Press, 2002, pp.130-131; Sotheby's New York, The Joseph M. Meraux Collection of Rare and Unusual Clocks, 28 June 1993, lot 69.
This clock closely resembles a model shown in the Exposition Universalle of 1900, subsequently described and illustrated by Planchon in the Revue Chronométrique of October 1900. The present clock differs from the examples in the Meraux collection (also illustrated in Roberts) and the Chinese Imperial collection, which are surmounted by Medici lions, one in gilded bronze and the other in patinated bronze.