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Lot Essay
A clock with a similar case and base is held in the Bodenstein Collection in Berlin (see H. Ottomeyer and P. Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich 1986, pp. 125-28). A clock of identical design signed Saint-Germain and Barat was sold at Christie's, London, 7th July 2005, lot 477 (£60,000), another sold Christie's, London, 16 April 2014, lot 6, (£68,500).
Jean-Joseph de Saint-Germain
Elected as a maître fondeur en terre et en sable on 15 July 1748, Saint-Germain (1719 - 1791) enjoyed the privilege of an ouvrier libre - enabling him to act both as an ébénistes and bronzier. He frequently supplied cases cast with animal forms and allegorical figures to the leading clockmakers of Paris, including the le Roy workshops, Etienne Lenoir and Jean-Philippe Gosselin.
Jean-Joseph de Saint-Germain
Elected as a maître fondeur en terre et en sable on 15 July 1748, Saint-Germain (1719 - 1791) enjoyed the privilege of an ouvrier libre - enabling him to act both as an ébénistes and bronzier. He frequently supplied cases cast with animal forms and allegorical figures to the leading clockmakers of Paris, including the le Roy workshops, Etienne Lenoir and Jean-Philippe Gosselin.
