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Chased and gilded bronze cartel decorated with compartments …
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Chased and gilded bronze cartel decorated with compartments …
See original version (French)
Estimate €40,000 - €60,000
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Description
Chased and gilded bronze cartel decorated with compartments with fleurons or scale, channel and festoon motifs, alternating with rosettes. It is crowned by a dome decorated with gadroons, fixed to the dial with large acanthus leaves arranged in symmetry and surmounted by a female allegory seated diagonally on a cloud. The lower part forms an imposing openwork cartouche with scalloped and foliate volutes ending in interlacing. Two winged women, in term, facing each other, crown the cartouche, supporting the rectilinear base of the dial which holds a spiral finial. The sides feature mascarons with male and female profiles. The enamelled dial signed and dated: COLIN DE LA GLIZIER A PARIS. 1735. The movement signed and dated COLIN DE LA GLIZIER A PARIS 1735.
Louis XV period, 1735.
Jean-Baptiste-Marie Colin de la Gliziere received his master's degree in 1729.
H. 75 cm - W. 26.5 cm. - D. 14 cm
(wear, small accidents)
Provenance: Former Bernard Steinitz Collection.
Bibliography: Our cartel is reproduced on p. 60-61, fig. 39 in Les ouvriers du temps by Jean-Dominique Augarde, published in 1996 by Editions Antiquorum. (Fig. 1)
Bronze became a predominant material in the manufacture of clock cases in the 1730s and 1740s, to such an extent that it almost completely eclipsed the traditional cabinet-making boxes. It lent itself marvellously to the exuberance of the rocaille art that was flourishing at the time, and by the end of the reign of Louis XIV had won the almost unanimous support of a clientele sensitive to luxury objects. Jean-Baptiste-Marie Colin de La Glizière, who designed the movement for our cartel in 1735, used cases by Caffieri, in particular Jacques (1678-1755), and later by Jean-Joseph de Saint-Germain (1719-1791) and Balthazar Lieutaud (circa 1720-1780).
Our cartel is resolutely Regency in style, with its espagnolettes and chiselled mosaic decoration evoking the creations of Charles Cressent (1685-1768) in the 1720s, a sentiment reinforced by the continuing symmetry of the overall design.
Colin de La Glizière was awarded the title of Master on 1 July 1729, and his clients included the Prince of Montauban, the Chevalier de Bethizy, the Count of Sainte-Amaranthe, the President of Bandeville and Messrs Paris de Montmartel and Perrinet des Jars.
For another clock by Colin de La Glizière, see the Pendule de Jupiter in the Jacquemart-André Museum.
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