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

145. Mantel Clock {pendule squelette)
     Paris, circa 1790-1800
     Movement by Nicolas-Alexandre Folin;
     enamel plaques by Georges-Adrien Merlet
     Gilt bronze; enameled metal; white marble
     base; glass and gilded metal case
     Painted Folin L'ainéA PARIS on dial;
     painted G Merlet on one enameled ring.
     Height: 1 ft. 7% in. (49.5 cm); Width:
     io^7 A in. (27.6 cm); Depth: 5% in. (14 cm)
     Accession number 72 .DB.57
     PROVENANCE
     Louis Guiraud (sold, Palais Galliera, Paris,
     December 10,1971, lot 35); [French and Co.,
     New York, 1971].
     BIBLIOGRAPHY
     Wilson, Clocks, no. 14, pp. 68-71, illus.

144 Mantel Clock

Paris, circa 1785

Attributed to Pierre-Philippe Thomire; dial

enameled by Dubuisson

Gilt and patinated bronze; enameled metal;

vertMaurin des Alpes marble; white marble

Enameled clock ring inscribed on the inte­

rior Dubuisson', movement scratched with

Sweden 1811.

Height: 1 ft. 9 in. (53.3 cm); Width:

2 ft. 1/8 in. (63.8 cm); Depth: 9% in.

(23.5 cm)

Accession number 82 .DB.2

144

PROVENANCE

Private collection, Sweden, by 1811; (sold,

Sotheby's, London, December 11,1981,

lot 99).

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Wilson, "Acquisitions 1981," pp. 79-84,

illus.; Alvar González-Palacios, The Adjec­

tives of History (P. and D. Colnaghi and

Co., London, 1983), pp. 44-45; Wilson,

Selections, no. 42, pp. 84-85, illus.; Otto-

meyer and Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen,

p. 299, fig. 4.18.8.

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