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- Mantel Clock
Paris, circa 1769
Movement by workshop of Charles Le Roy;
case attributed to Etienne Martincourt
Gilt bronze, enameled metal
Painted CHARLES LE ROYA PARIS on dial;
movement engraved Ch^s Le RoyA*aris
and stamped 2417 on backplate; two move
ment springs are signed and dated Richard
Fevrier 1772.
Height: 2 ft. 4 in. (66 cm); Width:
ι ft. 11 lA in. (59.7 cm); Depth: 1 ft. iV% in.
(33.3 cm)
Accession number 73 .DB.78
PROVENANCE
Louis XV, Chambre du Rot, Marly; furnished
by the valet de chambre-horloger du Rot,
Alexandre Lefaucheur, in May 1769 for the
Menus Plaisirs; later in the Salle du Conseil
of the Palais des Tuileries, 1790; stored
in the Hotel de Coigny, Paris, between
August 10,1792, and 24 prairial, an II
(June 2,1794); Palais Petit Luxembourg,
Paris, from 29 frimaire, an IV (December 20,
1795); (?) the marquis de Saint-Cloud (sold,
Hotel Drouot, February 25-26,1861, lot 1);
[Kraemer et Cie, Paris]; [French and Co.,
New York, 1973].
EXHIBITIONS
The Detroit Institute of Arts, 1973; New
York, The Frick Collection, French Clocks
in North American Collections, November
1982-January 1983, no. 63, illus. p. 67.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Wilson, Clocks, no. 13, pp. 64-76, illus.;
Wilson, Selections, no. 32, pp. 64-65, illus.;
Ottomeyer and Pröschel, Vergoldete
Bronzen, p. 181, fig. 3.7.10; Handbook 1986,
p. 169, illus.; HandbookT991, p. 186, illus.
- Barometer
Paris, circa 1770-1775
Oak veneered with ebony; gilt-bronze
mounts; enameled metal; ivory; glass
barometrical tube
Height: 4 ft. Vz in. (123.2 cm); Width: 9Κ in.
(24.1 cm); Depth: ι^7 λ in. (4.8 cm)
Accession number 86 .DB.632
PROVENANCE
Marquis da Foz, probably removed from
Lisbon to London (sold, Christie s, London,
June 10, 1892, lot 65); Mrs. Orme Wilson
(sold, Parke-Bernet, New York, March 25-26,
1949, lot 386); Mme Lucienne Fribourg
(sold, Parke-Bernet, New York, April 19,
1969, lot 189); [Alexander and Berendt, Ltd.,
London]; Frau Quandt, Bad Homburg,
Germany; [B. Fabre et Fils, Paris], owned
jointly with [Jeremy, Ltd., London, 1986].
BIBLIOGRAPHY
"Acquisitions/1986," no. 108, p. 214, illus.
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