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Elegant portico clock with central projection in white marbl…
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Elegant portico clock with central projection in white marbl…
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Estimate €800 - €1,200
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Description
Elegant portico clock with central projection in white marble and rich ormolu trim.
The iron dial with Arabic and Roman numerals, signed Pochon in Paris, is supported by three registers of tapering fluted columns or pilasters with foliage scrolls or friezes and surmounted by a large Salembier-style motif of foliage scrolls centred on a finial and terminating in rooster heads in profile holding in their beaks falls of grapefruits with ribbon bows. The stepped base underlined by a string of pearls and decorated with scrolls of flowering branches and acanthus leaves is decorated with a love trophy in the form of a floral medallion with two hearts pierced by an arrow and rests on four spinning top feet. Fleur-de-lys balance.
Louis XVI period.
Minor accidents and missing parts.
46 x 32 x 14 cm.
Jean-Charles Pochon, who became a master watchmaker around 1775, was one of the most important Parisian watchmakers in the last third of the 18th century. He set up in Enclos Saint-Martin-des-Champs in 1780, then in Rue de l'Egalité in 1800, and followed the changing fashions of his time, not limiting himself to watchmaking alone. He worked closely with bronziers, gilders and chisellers to offer his aristocratic clientele total creations that enhanced his mastery of watchmaking.
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