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Lot Essay
Louis-Jacques Vaillant (d. after 1817), maître in 1787, is recorded at Rue du Four St-Honoré in 1789, Rue de la Tixeranderie in 1800 and Rue de la Verrerie from 1812 to 1817 (Tardy, Dictionnaire des Horlogers Français, Paris, p. 625; J.-D. Augarde, Les Ouvriers du Temps, Geneva, 1996, p. 404).
Of similar size, mounts and bas-relief frieze of the same design and verde antico base, this clock is virtually identical to an example in the residence of the British Ambassador in Paris (illustrated in H. Ottomeyer & P. Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, vol. I, Munich, 1986, p. 349, no. 5.6.8 and J.N. Ronfort, A L'Ombre de Pauline: Le Résidence de L'Ambassadeur de Grande-Bretagne à Paris, Paris, 2001, pp. 76-77). For other examples of the same model, see Christie's, Paris, 19 December 2007, lot 358 (EUR 17,050), Sotheby's London, 10 December 1993, lot 278 (£3,400), E. Niehüser, French Bronze Clocks, 1700-1830, Atglen, 1999, p. 231, no. 715 and E. Dumonthier, Les Bronzes du Mobilier National-Pendules et Cartels, Paris, pp. 20, 52, no. 6. For related models with slightly variant mounts and bas-relief panels depicting Amor and Sapho, see Christie's, Amsterdam, 15 December 1999, lot 192 (NLG. 10,531) and Niehüser, op. cit., pp. 76-77, nos. 114, 115.
Of similar size, mounts and bas-relief frieze of the same design and verde antico base, this clock is virtually identical to an example in the residence of the British Ambassador in Paris (illustrated in H. Ottomeyer & P. Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, vol. I, Munich, 1986, p. 349, no. 5.6.8 and J.N. Ronfort, A L'Ombre de Pauline: Le Résidence de L'Ambassadeur de Grande-Bretagne à Paris, Paris, 2001, pp. 76-77). For other examples of the same model, see Christie's, Paris, 19 December 2007, lot 358 (EUR 17,050), Sotheby's London, 10 December 1993, lot 278 (£3,400), E. Niehüser, French Bronze Clocks, 1700-1830, Atglen, 1999, p. 231, no. 715 and E. Dumonthier, Les Bronzes du Mobilier National-Pendules et Cartels, Paris, pp. 20, 52, no. 6. For related models with slightly variant mounts and bas-relief panels depicting Amor and Sapho, see Christie's, Amsterdam, 15 December 1999, lot 192 (NLG. 10,531) and Niehüser, op. cit., pp. 76-77, nos. 114, 115.