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A Parisian ormolu pendulum clock with symbols of love and war

Auction 1184 - overview Cologne
19.11.2021, 11:00 - Decorative Arts
Estimate: 5.000 € - 6.000 €
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A Parisian ormolu pendulum clock with symbols of love and war

Fire-gilt bronze and ebonised wood clock with a glazed white enamel dial, pierced gilt hands and brass mountings. 14-day pendulum movement with thread suspension and half-hourly striking on a bell. The dial signed "Imbert L'ainé", the plate engraved "Imbert L'ainé AParis". Chipped and with a short crack at 12 o'clock, the attribute at the feet of Mars lost. With base H 36.6, W 31, D 15.5 cm.
Faubourg St-Antoine, Jean-Gabiel Imbert l'ainé, master since 1776.

Provenance

Private collection, Rome.

Literature

This clockmaker mentioned in Tardy, Dictionnaire des horlogers français, Paris 3/1972, p. 318.

A pendulum movement by Imbert l'ainé with an allegory of the dawn is housed in the Munich Residence, Kurfürstenzimmer, in Ottomeyer/Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, vol. I, Munich 1986, pl. XXX."