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Lot Essay
Teteblanche, probably Joseph Weishaupt, maître horloger circa 1749 in Carlsbad.
Winthrop Edey (1938-1999), a highly regarded scholar and the author of the Frick collection’s 1982 landmark exhibition French Clocks in North American Collections, began collecting clocks as a boy and assembled a notable collection over five decades. A number of other clocks in this sale were included in this groundbreaking exhibition. Upon his death, his bequest to the Frick included over thirty-nine clocks and timepieces along with his extensive research library.
A second clock numbered 389 and with its original leather case was sold anonymously at Sotheby’s, London, 6 November 2014, lot 174 and a third example numbered 325 was exhibited in 'Northern European Clocks in New York Collections, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 4 January-28 March 1972, no. 73 (lent by Peter Guggenheim).
Winthrop Edey (1938-1999), a highly regarded scholar and the author of the Frick collection’s 1982 landmark exhibition French Clocks in North American Collections, began collecting clocks as a boy and assembled a notable collection over five decades. A number of other clocks in this sale were included in this groundbreaking exhibition. Upon his death, his bequest to the Frick included over thirty-nine clocks and timepieces along with his extensive research library.
A second clock numbered 389 and with its original leather case was sold anonymously at Sotheby’s, London, 6 November 2014, lot 174 and a third example numbered 325 was exhibited in 'Northern European Clocks in New York Collections, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 4 January-28 March 1972, no. 73 (lent by Peter Guggenheim).