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Auction archive: Lot number 226

AN EMPIRE ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY AND DIHL ET GUERHARD PORCELAIN CLOCK EMBLEMATIC OF STRENGTH AND PRUDENCE

Estimate
US$60,000 - US$100,000
Price realised:
n. a.
Auction archive: Lot number 226

AN EMPIRE ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY AND DIHL ET GUERHARD PORCELAIN CLOCK EMBLEMATIC OF STRENGTH AND PRUDENCE

Estimate
US$60,000 - US$100,000
Price realised:
n. a.
Beschreibung:

AN EMPIRE ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY AND DIHL ET GUERHARD PORCELAIN CLOCK EMBLEMATIC OF STRENGTH AND PRUDENCE CIRCA 1805, THE BISCUIT FIGURES MODELED BY CHARLES GABRIEL SAUVAGE CALLED LEMIRE, PERE With a spread-winged eagle finial above a polychrome enameled dial signed Schmidt Paris with enameler's signature G.M ., above a recessed ormolu plaque and flanked by seated biscuit porcelain figures, she on the left with the lion pelt and club associated with Hercules as Force , she on the right gazing into a hand-mirror as Prudence , within a waterleaf border on a shaped plinth inset with recessed sculpted biscuit portrait roundels and plaques, leaftip toupie feet, with engraved inventory mark St. L: No 5 and with 19th century blue printed paper label inscribed 16/37 22 ¼ in. (56.5 cm.) high, 31 ½ in. (80 cm.) wide, 6 ½ in. (16.5 cm.) deep Provenance Supplied to Louis Bonaparte (1778-1846) and his wife Hortense de Beauharnais (1783-1837) and recorded at the château de Saint-Leu, which they acquired in 1804.

Auction archive: Lot number 226
Auction:
Datum:
2 Apr 2020
Auction house:
Christie's
New York
Beschreibung:

AN EMPIRE ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY AND DIHL ET GUERHARD PORCELAIN CLOCK EMBLEMATIC OF STRENGTH AND PRUDENCE CIRCA 1805, THE BISCUIT FIGURES MODELED BY CHARLES GABRIEL SAUVAGE CALLED LEMIRE, PERE With a spread-winged eagle finial above a polychrome enameled dial signed Schmidt Paris with enameler's signature G.M ., above a recessed ormolu plaque and flanked by seated biscuit porcelain figures, she on the left with the lion pelt and club associated with Hercules as Force , she on the right gazing into a hand-mirror as Prudence , within a waterleaf border on a shaped plinth inset with recessed sculpted biscuit portrait roundels and plaques, leaftip toupie feet, with engraved inventory mark St. L: No 5 and with 19th century blue printed paper label inscribed 16/37 22 ¼ in. (56.5 cm.) high, 31 ½ in. (80 cm.) wide, 6 ½ in. (16.5 cm.) deep Provenance Supplied to Louis Bonaparte (1778-1846) and his wife Hortense de Beauharnais (1783-1837) and recorded at the château de Saint-Leu, which they acquired in 1804.

Auction archive: Lot number 226
Auction:
Datum:
2 Apr 2020
Auction house:
Christie's
New York
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