19TH CENTURY

Details

A FRENCH ORMOLU AND PATINATED BRONZE MANTEL CLOCK
19TH CENTURY
Modeled as Europa and the Bull flanked by a pair of maidens, the dial signed CHles. VOISIN, the movement signed Charles Voisin AParis, on a later ebonized plinth
29 in. (74 cm.) high, 24 in. (61 cm.) wide, 11 in. (28 cm.) deep

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 3 July 1980, lot 29.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 9 December 1993, lot 180.

If you wish to view the condition report of this lot, please sign in to your account.

View condition report

Lot Essay

This clock is after the celebrated Europa model by Jean-Joseph de Saint-Germain in the Musée du Louvre, Paris (H. Ottomeyer and P. Proschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, Münich 1986, p.125, fig. 2.8.8). A related clock is illustrated in C. Bremer-David et al. Decorative Arts in the J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, 1993, p.90, no. 140.

More from The Opulent Eye & Carpets

View All