A French Empire chariot pendulum clock
A French Empire chariot pendulum clock
Ormolu, bronze, white enamel dial, blued metal hands. 14-day running movement with thread suspension and half-hourly striking on a bell. Cast in several parts and mounted. Large mantle clock with an oblong base on fasces bundle supports. Surmounted by a classical chariot drawn by two rearing horses, the drawbar held by a lion, and driven by figures of Telemachos and Athena. Signed "LHOEST FG. ST. HONORE" on the dial. H 45.5, W 48.5, D 11.5 cm.
Paris, around 1810, the bronzes attributed to Jean-André Reiche.
The Bibliothèque nationale owns a drawing by the bronzier Jean-André Reiche (1752 - 1817), to which this attribution can be traced. Kjellberg also mentions a copy in Malmaison Castle, another is in the Musée du Temps in the Palais Granvelle in Besançon.
The watchmaker LHoest is probably Dieudonné LHoest, born in Liège in 1778, who is documented in Paris as of 1796 and specialised in the production of pocket watches.
Provenance
Acquired on the Düsseldorf art market in 1997.
Literature
Cf. Kjellberg, Encyclopédie de la pendule française du Moyen Age au XXe siècle, Paris 1997, p. 417.
Cf. Niehüser, Die französische Bronzeuhr. Eine Typologie der figürlichen Darstellungen, Munich 1997, p. 68 f.
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A French Empire chariot pendulum clock
Ormolu, bronze, white enamel dial, blued metal hands. 14-day running movement with thread suspension and half-hourly striking on a bell. Cast in several parts and mounted. Large mantle clock with an oblong base on fasces bundle supports. Surmounted by a classical chariot drawn by two rearing horses, the drawbar held by a lion, and driven by figures of Telemachos and Athena. Signed "LHOEST FG. ST. HONORE" on the dial. H 45.5, W 48.5, D 11.5 cm.
Paris, around 1810, the bronzes attributed to Jean-André Reiche.
The Bibliothèque nationale owns a drawing by the bronzier Jean-André Reiche (1752 - 1817), to which this attribution can be traced. Kjellberg also mentions a copy in Malmaison Castle, another is in the Musée du Temps in the Palais Granvelle in Besançon.
The watchmaker LHoest is probably Dieudonné LHoest, born in Liège in 1778, who is documented in Paris as of 1796 and specialised in the production of pocket watches.
Provenance
Acquired on the Düsseldorf art market in 1997.
Literature
Cf. Kjellberg, Encyclopédie de la pendule française du Moyen Age au XXe siècle, Paris 1997, p. 417.
Cf. Niehüser, Die französische Bronzeuhr. Eine Typologie der figürlichen Darstellungen, Munich 1997, p. 68 f.
