A DIRECTOIRE BRONZE AND ORMOLU MANTEL CLOCK 'A L'AMERIQUE'
A DIRECTOIRE BRONZE AND ORMOLU MANTEL CLOCK 'A L'AMERIQUE'

AFTER A DESIGN BY DEVERBERIE

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A DIRECTOIRE BRONZE AND ORMOLU MANTEL CLOCK 'A L'AMERIQUE'
After a design by Deverberie
The circular white enamel dial, signed 'Ridel à Paris' in a drum-shaped case surmounted by the figure of a bronze Indian huntress, wearing a headdress and skirt, the tail of the crocodile around a palm tree to the other side of the dial, above a bow ended base, faced by a satyre mask, ribbon tied stylised snakes, and foliate swags on toupie feet, partially lacking the hear-rings and the back plate, with pendulum
19 in. (40 cm.) high

拍品专文

Ridel is recorded in the rue aux Ours in 1800.

Known as A La Sauvage, this allegory of L'Amérique is after the design signed and dated No 12 Deverberie due trois Pluvoise an Sept (1799) in the cabinet des Estampes, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris (H. Ottomeyer, P.Pröschel et al., Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, Vol.I, p381, fig. 5.15.28). It is inscribed by 'De Verberie', the marchand-mercier who in 1804 had a shop at the Boulevard du Temple where he sold clocks representing a series of the Continents, including this á l'Américaine.
A clock of this model is in the Musée Paul Dupuy, Toulouse and is illustrated in Tardy, La Pendule Franaise, Paris, 1967/69, vol.II, p.357, whilst a further example was sold by The Lady Grantley in these Rooms, 4 July 1996, lot 226 (/P20,700).