LARGE LOUIS XV BOULLE PENDULE ON A BASE WITH A...
LARGE LOUIS XV BOULLE PENDULE ON A BASE WITH A CHRONOS CROWN Fieffe à Paris, mid-18th century. Wooden case, richly decorated with the finest Boulle-style marquetry. Rich fire-gilded bronze mountings featuring rocaille motifs, foliage, ram’s heads at the upper corners, and scalloped borders. Crowned by a fully sculpted, fire-gilded bronze figure of Chronos with a scythe, seated on a globe. Dial featuring a gilded, relief-carved bronze plate and 12 inlaid fine enamel cartouches with blue Roman numerals. Signed in an enamel cartouche below the dial: “FIEFFE A PARIS.” Solid brass movement with a spindle escapement and a thread-suspension pendulum. Half-hour and hour chimes on two bells (disc-strike mechanism). Plate engraved on the back with “Fieffe A Paris.” Signs of age and wear; some missing sections and restorations in the Boulle veneer. Movement not tested for completeness or function; key included. H: approx. 145 cm.
Jean-Jacques Fieffé was admitted as a master in 1725 and rose to become one of the most prominent Parisian clockmakers of the reign of Louis XV. As Horloger de l’Observatoire, he supplied the high nobility (including the Duc de Chaulnes) and collaborated with the leading bronze casters of his time, such as Jean-Joseph de Saint-Germain and the Caffieris. Works by Fieffé are now housed, among other places, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. NOT SUITABLE FOR SHIPPING—PICKUP ONLY!
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LARGE LOUIS XV BOULLE PENDULE ON A BASE WITH A CHRONOS CROWN Fieffe à Paris, mid-18th century. Wooden case, richly decorated with the finest Boulle-style marquetry. Rich fire-gilded bronze mountings featuring rocaille motifs, foliage, ram’s heads at the upper corners, and scalloped borders. Crowned by a fully sculpted, fire-gilded bronze figure of Chronos with a scythe, seated on a globe. Dial featuring a gilded, relief-carved bronze plate and 12 inlaid fine enamel cartouches with blue Roman numerals. Signed in an enamel cartouche below the dial: “FIEFFE A PARIS.” Solid brass movement with a spindle escapement and a thread-suspension pendulum. Half-hour and hour chimes on two bells (disc-strike mechanism). Plate engraved on the back with “Fieffe A Paris.” Signs of age and wear; some missing sections and restorations in the Boulle veneer. Movement not tested for completeness or function; key included. H: approx. 145 cm.
Jean-Jacques Fieffé was admitted as a master in 1725 and rose to become one of the most prominent Parisian clockmakers of the reign of Louis XV. As Horloger de l’Observatoire, he supplied the high nobility (including the Duc de Chaulnes) and collaborated with the leading bronze casters of his time, such as Jean-Joseph de Saint-Germain and the Caffieris. Works by Fieffé are now housed, among other places, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. NOT SUITABLE FOR SHIPPING—PICKUP ONLY!
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