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A good early 19th century gilt and patinated bronze figural mantel clock Vuidepot a Paris
21 November 2023, 13:00 GMT
London, New Bond StreetSold for £17,920 inc. premium
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Vuidepot a Paris
Depicting a woman driving a chariot, her hair tied up in a fashionable coiffure and wearing a low cut dress, a crop and reins in her hands, the horse leaping forwards, an attendant boy standing on a sprung platform to the rear, the wheel with six spokes, all set on an ormolu base with engine turned finish over a patinated plinth and cast leaf-and-berry feet.
The white enamel chapter ring set within the rim of the wheel with Arabic quarters, minute track and Roman hours signed below XII Vuidepot a Paris.
The circular movement with silk suspended pendulum and outside countwheel strike on a bell. Ticking and striking. With pendulum and a winding key.
33cms (12.5ins) high
Depicting a woman driving a chariot, her hair tied up in a fashionable coiffure and wearing a low cut dress, a crop and reins in her hands, the horse leaping forwards, an attendant boy standing on a sprung platform to the rear, the wheel with six spokes, all set on an ormolu base with engine turned finish over a patinated plinth and cast leaf-and-berry feet.
The white enamel chapter ring set within the rim of the wheel with Arabic quarters, minute track and Roman hours signed below XII Vuidepot a Paris.
The circular movement with silk suspended pendulum and outside countwheel strike on a bell. Ticking and striking. With pendulum and a winding key.
33cms (12.5ins) high
Footnotes
Vuidepot is recorded as a clockmaker working in Rue St-Martin, Paris in 1812. See Tardy, Dictionanaire des Horologers Francais, page 648.
Comparative Literature
P. Kjellberg, La Pendule Française, 1997, p.345, fig. E.
See also the catalogue for the Musée François Duesberg, Mons.