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Athena's chariot clock Gilt bronze.
See original version (French)
350
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Athena's chariot clock Gilt bronze.
See original version (French)
Estimate €2,000 - €4,000
Voluntary lot
Description
Athena's chariot clock
Gilt bronze.
The enamelled skeleton dial shows the hours in Roman numerals and the minutes on a railway track. Signed "Signol ainé à Paris", the dial is set in the wheel of the chariot led by Athena. The base is decorated with a bas-relief showing the triumph of the goddess. It stands on four skate feet.
Wire suspension.
Restoration period.
Signol Ainé was established as a watchmaker on boulevard Poissonnière in Paris from 1820.
Height 51.5 Width 49.5 Depth 16.5 cm.
The suspension wire is damaged.
Provenance: estate of a former antique dealer, Orléans.
Chariot of Athena gilt bronze clock by Signol Ainé, Bourbon Restoration period.
Related work: a clock of the same model is in the collections of the Pushkin Museum in Moscow.
Bibliography: Pierre Kjellberg, Encyclopédie de la pendule française du Moyen-Age au XXe siècle, Paris, Les éditions de l'Amateur, 1997, related works pp. 415-421.
Under the Restoration, a large number of designs from the First Empire were re-used to meet demand and the lack of new productions. For example, during the coronation of Charles X, the imperial furniture was transferred to Reims to furnish the royal flats. Likewise, this clock takes up the codes of the previous period, such as Athena and her horses, which is close to Jean-André Reiche's model for the "Telemachus chariot" clock intended for the Maréchaux d'Empire. The frieze is reminiscent of Thomire's Le triomphe de Trajan. This clock therefore bears witness to the last flush of Neoclassicism in the decade 1820-1830.
See original version (French)
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