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90 - LYRE CLOCK FROM THE LATE LOUIS XVI-EARLY REVOLUTIONARY PERIO…
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LYRE CLOCK FROM THE LATE LOUIS XVI-EARLY REVOLUTIONARY PERIOD In beautiful blue Sèvres soft-paste porcelain, decorated with chased and gilt bronze, the polychrome enamelled dial showing the hours, minutes, seconds and days of the month, signed "Kinable" and signed "Dubuisson" under the bezel, the movement signed "Kinable / PARIS", surmounted by the mask of Apollo beaming, resting on a doucine pedestal surrounded by garlands of flowers au naturel and finished with toupie feet. H. 62.5 cm (24 ½ in.) l. 25.5 cm (10 in.) Dieudonné Kinable, clockmaker active around 1790 - 1810 Étienne Gobin, known as Dubuisson, enameller on rue de la Huchette and at Les Barnabites from 1795 Comparative bibliography : P. Kjellberg, Encyclopédie de la Pendule Française du Moyen Age au XXe siècle, Les Éditions de l'Amateur, Paris, 1997, p.230. H. Ottomeyer, P. Pröschel et al, Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, Vol. I, 1986, p.252, fig. 4.6.26. P. Verlet, Les Bronzes Dorés Français du XVIIIe siècle, Picard, Paris, 2003, p.41, fig. 32. A late Louis XVI-early revolutionary period gilt-bronze mounted and Sevres blue porcelain lyre mantel-clock, the dial by Dieudonne Kinable, the enamels by Dubuisson Porcelain lyre clocks began to be produced by the Manufacture de Sèvres in 1785; from the outset, these exceptional pieces were intended for the wealthiest connoisseurs of the time and were available in four colours: turquoise blue, green, pink and bleu nouveau or beau bleu, such as the example we are presenting here. The watchmaker Kinable was the largest purchaser of cases of this type from the Manufacture de Sèvres; he bought 13 between 1795 and 1807, making them a veritable speciality. Among the fine blue examples in public collections are the following: A first one (cfr. Fig.1) delivered in 1828 for George IV at Carlton House by the Parisian merchant Lafontaine and which today still forms part of the English royal collections (cfr. C. Jagger, Royal Clocks, The British Monarchy & its Timekeepers 1300-1900, 1983, p.130, fig.176). A second (see Fig.2), probably delivered for Louis XVI's Salon des Jeux in Versailles and now in the collections of the Musée du Louvre. (inv. O.A.R. 483); the latter is illustrated in P. Verlet Les Bronzes Dorés Français du XVIIIe siècle, Picard, Paris, 2003, p.41 fig. 32. A third (see Fig.3) is in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London (see H. Ottomeyer, P. Pröschel et al, Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, Vol. I, 1986, p.252, fig. 4.6.26.). A last one (cf. Fig.4), from the Hodgkins collection, kept at the Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore (no. 58 2 32). A few pieces have appeared exceptionally on the public auction market; among the most recent is one from the former Segoura collection (cf. Fig.5) sold at Christie's New York on 19 October 2006, lot 124. (dial showing the signs of the Zodiac and enamel by Dubuisson) or the piece from the Dalva collection (see Fig.6) sold at Christie's New York on 22 October 2020, lot 203 (dial enamel by Dubuisson).
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