BY EMMANUEL-ALFRED (DIT ALFRED II) BEURDELEY, PARIS, CIRCA 1880

The present clock is most likely modelled after a design by Robin, horloger du Roi, dating from 1775 (H. Ottomeyer and P. Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, 1986, vol. I., p. 226, 4.1.2). Beurdeley adapted the work and often sold the clock en suite with a pair of candelabra which he based on a model by famed 18th century bronzier François Rémond dating from circa 1780 (op. cit., p. 427, 6.3.16), thus creating a uniquely nineteenth-century garniture. A three-piece garniture comprising a clock of this model and pair of eight light candelabra by Beurdeley sold Sotheby's, New York, 16 November 2011, lot 298 ($74,500, with premium).