A DIRECTOIRE PATINATED-BRONZE AND ORMOLU-MOUNTED MUSICAL ORGAN CLOCK
A DIRECTOIRE PATINATED-BRONZE AND ORMOLU-MOUNTED MUSICAL ORGAN CLOCK

LEPINE, PARIS. LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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A DIRECTOIRE PATINATED-BRONZE AND ORMOLU-MOUNTED MUSICAL ORGAN CLOCK
LEPINE, PARIS. LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY
CASE: surmounted by figure of Cupid offering a laurel wreath to a classically draped maiden with a harp, the plinth with laurel leaf and musical instrument mounts, base with relief cast panel depicting a rustic scene, toupie feet DIAL: the white enamel dial signed 'Lépine à Paris', pierced ormolu hands MOVEMENT: with twin going barrels, later platform lever escapement and countwheel strike on bell, substantial musical organ movement with single chain fusee playing twelve tunes via 12 in. wide wooden pin barrel; winding keys
34 in. (86.5 cm.) high; 25 in. (63.5 cm.) wide; 13 in. (33 cm.) deep

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A closely related clock, also by Lépine, is illustrated, P. Kjellberg, L'Encyclopedie de La Pendule Franaise, Paris, 1997, p. 334, plate D.
Jean Antoine Lepine (1720-1814) was Watchmaker to Louis XV, Louis XVI and Napoleon I. He was highly talented and invented several of the refinements in French watchmaking in the second half of the 18th Century. In 1765 he married Andre Caron's daughter and worked as 'Caron et Lepine' until 1769. There are several clocks by him in the British Royal collection and Jagger writes (C. Jagger, Royal Clocks, The British Monarchy and its Timekeepers, London, 1983 p.164) '[Lepine] was a favourite clockmaker in George IV's estimation and a number of clocks were bought from him'.