Lot 521 D α

A Parisian ormolu époque transition pendulum clock.

Auction 1048 - overview Cologne
15.05.2015, 14:00 - Jewellery, Furniture, Objects of Vertu, Boxes, Portrait Miniatures
Estimate: 20.000 € - 30.000 €
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A Parisian ormolu époque transition pendulum clock.

With a round eight day pendulum movement with spring hanger and half-hourly striking to a bell. Of symmetrical cartouche form decorated with female busts and an urn shaped finial. Signed to the enamel dial and the plate: Charles Le Roy AParis. Later anchor escapement, the glazing to the pendulum lost, repaired chip to the X index. H 68 cm.
The movement Charles Le Roy, the bronze probably Osmond workshop, ca. 1765 - 70.

The death of Charles LeRoy in 1771 provides the terminus ante quem which allows for the attribution of this clock to the workshop of Robert Osmond - one of the first bronze casters to distance themselves from the opulent curvilinear forms of the rococo era and move towards a more reserved and minimal style utilising neoclassical motifs. The pendulum clocks produced in his workshop around 1755 all use the same vase form finial. He designed the cartel clock with flanking columns after 1770, however the flowing forms of this model are clearly still nearer to the earlier style of the Louis XV period.

Literature

For Osmond cf.: Ottomeyer/ Pröschel ed., Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich 1986, vol. II, p. 539 ff.