AFTER THE MODEL BY CHARLES CRESSENT, 19TH CENTURY

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A FRENCH ORMOLU BRACKET CLOCK
AFTER THE MODEL BY CHARLES CRESSENT, 19TH CENTURY
The circular dial with later enamel Zodiac chapter rings, surmounted by a pierced C-scroll cresting issuing a winged cherub, the waisted case cast with scrolls and flowers above a trellis-pierced base centering a female mask, on a scrolled bracket base cast with bull rushes, on a pierced rocaille-scroll-cast bracket centered by a cockerel
53½ in. (136 cm.) high; 15½ in. (40 cm.) wide; 8 in. (21 cm.) deep (3)

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 24 May 2000, lot 354.

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Lot Essay

Charles Cressent (1685-1768) ran one of the most important cabinet-making workshops in Paris between 1719 and 1757. The attribution of this model to Cressent stems from a clock described in the catalogue of the sale of his stock in 1757: Une pendule à face de bronze sur son pied tout de bronze; elle est coeffé d'un enfant sur un nuage; au pied, il ya deux dragons, avec une tête de Lyon qui sort par un trou. An example in the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris is illustrated in H. Ottomeyer/P. Pr/uoschel, Vergoldete, Bronzen, Munich, 1986, vol. I., p. 79, fig. 1.12.6.

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