Decorative Arts: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue of the Collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum

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139. Clock on Bracket
     Paris, circa 1758
     Movement by Jean Romilly; clock case
     attributed to Charles Cressent; bracket by
     Jean-Joseph de Saint-Germain
     Gilt bronze; enameled metal; wood carcass;
     glass
     Bracket stamped ST. GERMAIN; movement
     engraved and dial painted Romilly A?aris;
     one spring inscribed for William II Blakey
     and dated 1758; all gilt-bronze elements
     stamped Eon reverse.
     Height: 4 ft. 2 in. (127 cm); Width:
     ι ft. 5^34 in. (45.1 cm); Depth: 7% in.
     (18.4 cm)
     Accession number 71 .DB.115
     PROVENANCE
     George Jay Gould, Georgian Court, Lake-
     wood, New Jersey; [Duveen Brothers,
     New York]; Anna Thomson Dodge, Rose
     Terrace, Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan
     (sold, Christies, London, June 24,1971,
     lot 40 [together with no. 134 in this book]);
     purchased at that sale by J. Paul Getty.
     BIBLIOGRAPHY
     Duveen and Co., A Catalogue of Works of
     Art of the Eighteenth Century in the Collection
     of Anna Thomson Dodge (Detroit, 1933),
     non-paginated entry, illus.; Theodore Dell,
     "The Gilt-Bronze Cartel Clocks of Charles
     Cressent," Burlington Magazine 109 (April
     1967), pp. 210-217; Wilson, Clocks, nos. 8-9
     (with no. 134 in this book), pp. 45-51, illus.;
     Ottomeyer and Pröschel, Vergoldete
     Bronzen, p. 79, fig. 1.12.7.

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