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Lot 1696 Dα

A pendulum clock with Meissen porcelain figures

Auction 1196 - overview Cologne
20.05.2022, 10:00 - Decorative Arts incl. Highly Important Mortars the Schwarzach Collection Part IV.
Estimate: 10.000 € - 12.000 €
Result: 10.000 € (incl. premium)
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A pendulum clock with Meissen porcelain figures

14-day running movement with spring suspension and half-hourly striking on a bell. Ormolu clock with a group of four amoretti representing the four seasons on an earth mound base inset into a bronze rocaille plinth fitted with porcelain flowers. The finial of the round, glazed clock case formed as a bird's nest. The plate engraved "Romilly AParis" and numbered "No-619" and "19/G". With minor restorations to the coal brazier, the bundle of wheat, flowers and leaves, filled chips to the winding holes. H 34.5, w ca. 24, d 20 cm.
The porcelain mid-18th C., models by Johann Joachim Kaendler from 1748, the clock movement Jean Romilly, Paris (1714 - 1796), the mountings 19th C.

Literature

For more on Romilly see Tardy, Dictionnaire des horlogers français, Paris 3/1972, S. 569, therein also mentioned "En 1880, on vendit 2600 lires sur une pendule avec fleurs de Saxe signée: Romilly à Paris". This maker was specialised in pocketwatches but also produced cartel and pendulum clocks.