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Lot Essay
The Parisian clock-maker Jean-Simon De Verberie of the Boulevard du Temple produced a number of designs on the theme of Le bon Sauvage (De Verberie's, Cahier des desseins des Pendules, is preserved in the Cabinet des Estampes at the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris). De Verberie also acted as a marchand-mercier, was by 1800 established at rue Barbet in Paris; four years later he was at Boulevard du Temple and from 1812 until 1824 his business Deverberie & Compagnie was based at rue des Fosse du Temple.
See Tardy, French Clocks The World Over Part II: From Louis XVI style to Louis XVIII-Charles X period, Paris, 1981, P. 244, for a similar ormolu model formerly in the Gélis Collection. An ormolu and patinated-bronze example with dial by Dubuisson, from the Musée François Duesberg, Mons is illustrated in Musées Royaux d’Art et d’Histoire, Pendules ‘au bon Sauvage’, exhibition catalogue, Bruxelles, 1993, pp. 18-19.
See Tardy, French Clocks The World Over Part II: From Louis XVI style to Louis XVIII-Charles X period, Paris, 1981, P. 244, for a similar ormolu model formerly in the Gélis Collection. An ormolu and patinated-bronze example with dial by Dubuisson, from the Musée François Duesberg, Mons is illustrated in Musées Royaux d’Art et d’Histoire, Pendules ‘au bon Sauvage’, exhibition catalogue, Bruxelles, 1993, pp. 18-19.