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Lot Essay
Several clocks of this model - probably including this example - are recorded in the 18th Century. The first, listed in the de Verrier sale in Paris, 18 November 1776, was also illustrated by Saint-Aubin in the margin of his own copy of the catalogue. The second was sold by the collector Sylvestre in Paris on 16 November 1778:- 169 une pendule renferme dans un vase d'ancienne porcelaine du Japon bleu foncé, elle est garnie de deux têtes de coq et autres ornements en bronze doré d'or moulu.
The last, forming the centrepiece of a chimney-garniture - as did that in the de Verrier sale - is described in the Inventory drawn up following the death of Dupleix de Bacquencourt in 1785. Placed in salon no. 118 were trois vases en urne dont un formant pendule sonnant et marquant les heures, de porcelaine de Sèvres, lapis monté en cuivre doré or moulu, 900 livres.
One of these three clocks - their horlogers frustratingly unrecorded - in all probability corresponds directly with the example in this lot. Most pertinently, Saint Aubin's sketch illustrates an identical clock.
Interestingly, the catalogue for the 1798 sale which took place in what is now the Palais d'Elysée included une pendule du nom de Mabille, placée dans un vase de porcelaine de la Chine, fond bleu turque, ornements de bronze doré.
MABILLE
The horloger Mabille (1734-1800), appointed ouvrier-libre around 1775 in the rue des Boucheries Saint-Germain, worked for the marchand-mercier Antoine Machard in 1777 and for the doreur M.F. Noël in the following year. His oeuvre, of exceptional important marchands-merciers, such as Simon-Philippe Poirier.
Clocks by Mabille are recorded in the collections of the marquise de Laval, the marquis de Chabrillan and the Prince de Condé, as well as the financiers Levasseur and Douet de la Boullaye.
The last, forming the centrepiece of a chimney-garniture - as did that in the de Verrier sale - is described in the Inventory drawn up following the death of Dupleix de Bacquencourt in 1785. Placed in salon no. 118 were trois vases en urne dont un formant pendule sonnant et marquant les heures, de porcelaine de Sèvres, lapis monté en cuivre doré or moulu, 900 livres.
One of these three clocks - their horlogers frustratingly unrecorded - in all probability corresponds directly with the example in this lot. Most pertinently, Saint Aubin's sketch illustrates an identical clock.
Interestingly, the catalogue for the 1798 sale which took place in what is now the Palais d'Elysée included une pendule du nom de Mabille, placée dans un vase de porcelaine de la Chine, fond bleu turque, ornements de bronze doré.
MABILLE
The horloger Mabille (1734-1800), appointed ouvrier-libre around 1775 in the rue des Boucheries Saint-Germain, worked for the marchand-mercier Antoine Machard in 1777 and for the doreur M.F. Noël in the following year. His oeuvre, of exceptional important marchands-merciers, such as Simon-Philippe Poirier.
Clocks by Mabille are recorded in the collections of the marquise de Laval, the marquis de Chabrillan and the Prince de Condé, as well as the financiers Levasseur and Douet de la Boullaye.