Lot Essay
Louis Montjoye 1748-Early 19th Century
Robert Osmond, matre-fondeur en terre et sable in 1746
A closely related clock, the case also by Osmond, was supplied by the
marchand-mercier Simon Poirier in 1777 to Louis XVI's younger brother, the comte d'Artois, for the salon des jeux in his apartments in the Palais du Temple in Paris, (see L'Objet d'Art ed., La Folie d'Artois , Paris, 1988, p. 108, fig.18). The model is based on no.77 in Osmond's Livre de Desseins, 1775, ' Piece a portail grande architecture avec 1 genie' (see H. Ottomeyer/P. Prschel, et al., Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, vol. I, p. 229). Variations of the model were also used to adorn the tops of cartonniers and serre-papiers, an example of which is in the Muse Jacquemart-Andr, Paris (illustrated in P. Verlet, Les Bronzes Dors du XVIIIe Sicle, Paris, 1987, p. 117, fig. 148). Another related clock by Osmond, with black marble plinth, was supplied to Louis XVI for the Cabinet de la Pendule in Versailles.
Robert Osmond, matre-fondeur en terre et sable in 1746
A closely related clock, the case also by Osmond, was supplied by the
marchand-mercier Simon Poirier in 1777 to Louis XVI's younger brother, the comte d'Artois, for the salon des jeux in his apartments in the Palais du Temple in Paris, (see L'Objet d'Art ed., La Folie d'Artois , Paris, 1988, p. 108, fig.18). The model is based on no.77 in Osmond's Livre de Desseins, 1775, ' Piece a portail grande architecture avec 1 genie' (see H. Ottomeyer/P. Prschel, et al., Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, vol. I, p. 229). Variations of the model were also used to adorn the tops of cartonniers and serre-papiers, an example of which is in the Muse Jacquemart-Andr, Paris (illustrated in P. Verlet, Les Bronzes Dors du XVIIIe Sicle, Paris, 1987, p. 117, fig. 148). Another related clock by Osmond, with black marble plinth, was supplied to Louis XVI for the Cabinet de la Pendule in Versailles.