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Lot Essay
This clock celebrates the Continent of America and is an allegory of L'Amérique after the design signed and dated No.12 Deverberie due trois Pluviose an Sept (1799) in the cabinet des Estampes, Bibliothque Nationale, Paris (H. Ottomeyer, P. Pörschel et al., Vergoldete Bronzen, Münich, 1986, vol.I, p.381, fig. 5.15.28). The design is inscribed by the Parisian clock-maker and marchand mercier De Verberie, the very person who signed the dial of this clock. De Verberie, who in 1804 had a shop at the Boulevard du Temple, sold clocks representing a series of the Continents, including this l'Amérique.
A clock of the same model, in the Musée Paul Dupuy, Toulouse, is illustrtated in Tardy, La Pendule Française, Paris, 1967-69, vol.II, p.357, and another one from the collection of the late Michael Behrens was sold, Christie's, London, 11 June 1998, lot 58.
A clock of the same model, in the Musée Paul Dupuy, Toulouse, is illustrtated in Tardy, La Pendule Française, Paris, 1967-69, vol.II, p.357, and another one from the collection of the late Michael Behrens was sold, Christie's, London, 11 June 1998, lot 58.