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Lot 1825 Dα

An ormolu pendulum clock

Auction 1196 - overview Cologne
20.05.2022, 10:00 - Decorative Arts incl. Highly Important Mortars the Schwarzach Collection Part IV.
Estimate: 4.000 € - 6.000 €
Result: 11.250 € (incl. premium)
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An ormolu pendulum clock

Fire-gilt and burnished bronze, glass eyes, glazed white enamel dial. 14-day running movement, spring suspension of the pendulum and half-hourly striking on a bell. With a figure of a sailor holding a pipe and a rope leaning against a large bundle of cargo forming the clock case. Chips to the enamel around the winding holes. H 37, W 30.3, D 11.2 cm.
Paris, early 19th C., model attributed to Claude Galle (1758 - 1815).

Provenance

Belgian private collection.

Literature

An example identical except for the clock hands pub. in Ottomeyer/Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, vol. I, Munich 1986, illus. 5.15.26.
Cf. also Kjellberg, Encyclopédie de la pendule française du Moyen Age au XXe siècle, Paris 1997, p. 343.