Lot n° 66
Estimation :
5000 - 8000
EUR
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Result
: 6 594EUR
Gilt bronze and white marble date clock decorated with a Chi - Lot 66
Gilt bronze and white marble date clock decorated with a Chinese pagoda, the dragon-decorated entablature supported by leafy columns framing a dial with Roman and Arabic numerals indicating the day of the month (one winding hole plugged), decorated with Chinese figures and bells; (accidents and missing parts).
The dial is signed by Béliard fils in Paris, for François Béliard, watchmaker received as master in 1749.
Louis XVI period
H. 62 cm, W. 28 cm, D. 21 cm
An identical clock illustrated in J.-D. Augarde, Les ouvriers du temps, Genêve, 1996, p. 301, was sold in Paris, Ader Picard Tajan, December 5, 1989, lot 195. Another clock from the Los Angeles museum (LACMA) was sold in New York at Christie's on May 19, 2004, lot 319, a third clock sold in Paris, étude Blanchet et Associés, on March 14, 2019, lot 284, another belonged to the Gutfreund collection (Christie's New York, June 26-27, 2021, lot 18), another to the Getty collection (Christie's New York sale, October 23, 2022, lot 521).
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