An ormolu pendulum clock with the muse Clio - image-1

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An ormolu pendulum clock with the muse Clio

Auction 1244 - overview Cologne
15.05.2024, 16:00 - Decorative Arts Furniture
Estimate: 1.000 € - 1.500 €
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An ormolu pendulum clock with the muse Clio

Fire gilt and burnished bronze, white enamel dial. Pendulum movement with thread suspension and half-hourly striking on a bell, 14 day running. Signed on the dial "Galle Rue Vivienne A PARIS". Later cuffs around the winding holes, chips to the enamel. H 35, W 29.5, D 12 cm.
Paris, after 1805.

Claude Galle (1759 - 1815), who was sworn in as a bronzier in 1786, already owned an elegant shop in Chamont during the Consulate, where he also lived. Even then, he supplied the garde-meuble and the imperial palaces. In 1805, he moved into premises for his workshop and business at 60 rue Vivienne in the centre of Paris. He specialised in luxury bronze objects, table clocks, vases and chandeliers of all kinds.

Literature

An identical example in Kjellberg, Encyclopédie de la pendule française du Moyen Age au XXe siècle, Paris 1997, S. 395.
For more on Claude Galle s. Ledoux-Lebard, Bronziers des Empire, in: Cf. Ottomeyer/Pröschel (ed), Vergoldete Bronzen. Die Bronzearbeiten des Spätbarock und Klassizismus, vol. II, Munich 1986, p. 704 ff.