AFTER THE MODEL BY JACQUES CAFFIERI, LATE 19TH CENTURY

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A FRENCH ORMOLU CARTEL CLOCK
AFTER THE MODEL BY JACQUES CAFFIERI, LATE 19TH CENTURY
The circular white enameled dial with Roman and Arabic chapters signed 'RA/ FERD BERTHOUT/ PARIS,' set within a cartouche-shaped case of scrolling acanthus-leaves, surmounted by a cherub riding a chariot drawn by a pair of doves within a sunburst, with a pierced foliate-paneled case above a Cupid covering Venus
41 ½ in. (105.4 cm.) high

Provenance

Baron Alphonse de Rothschild (1827-1905), in the Antichambre noire, hôtel Saint-Florentin, Paris.
By descent to the present owners.

Literature

The Rothschild Archive, London, Inventaire après le décès de Monsieur le Baron Alphonse de Rothschild, A. Cottin Notaire, 16 October 1905 (hôtel Saint-Florentin, Antichambre noire (‘Cartel Louis XV bronze dore surmonté d’un soleil - 3000 francs’).

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Lot Essay

This clock is after the celebrated model by Jacques Caffieri, circa 1750. The cartel d'applique, signed by Caffieri and with movement by Cronier, Paris, may be found in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (see H. Ottomeyer and P. Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, p. 117, fig. 2.5.11 and Tardy, La Pendule Française des origines au Louis XV, Vol. I, p. 190, fig. 1.)

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