AN EMPIRE ORMOLU, PATINATED-BRONZE AND VERDE ANTICO STRIKING MANTEL CLOCK: AN ALLEGORY OF STUDY
AN EMPIRE ORMOLU, PATINATED-BRONZE AND VERDE ANTICO STRIKING MANTEL CLOCK: AN ALLEGORY OF STUDY

LOUIS-JACQUES VAILLANT, PARIS, CIRCA 1810

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AN EMPIRE ORMOLU, PATINATED-BRONZE AND VERDE ANTICO STRIKING MANTEL CLOCK: AN ALLEGORY OF STUDY
LOUIS-JACQUES VAILLANT, PARIS, CIRCA 1810
CASE: with a female figure in classical garb leaning on a pile of books on a draped rectangular case with cockerel and torchère mounts, on a rectangular base with relief panel of putti engaged in the Arts and Sciences, on bun feet, the inner surfaces of the ormolu with impressions of uppercase lettering DIAL: 5½ in. diameter white enamel with inner concentric date ring signed 'Vaillant à Paris', pierced and engraved gilt hands, blued steel calendar hand MOVEMENT: twin barrels with anchor escapement, silk suspension and countwheel strike to bell, repeat signature to back plate; pendulum, winding key
27 in. (68.5 cm.) high; 16 3/8 in. (41.5 cm.) wide; 7 in. (17.8 cm.) deep

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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.