BRONZE MANTLE CLOCK. PONS AND MARQUIS, POSSIBLY 1827-1847, AFTER ETIENNE MARTINCOURT.
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Reference: ZF1518
Louis XVI style table clock. Gilt bronze, glass, metal, etc. French school, Honoré Pons and Louis-Auguste Marquis. Possibly 1827-1847, following a model by Etienne Martincourt. With moving seals. In working order. A gilt bronze table clock with a raised base on legs, decorated with garlands of elements clearly influenced by classical art. A pedestal sits atop this base, upon which are seated two allegorical female figures (one holding a globe or sphere, and the other a rolled-up scroll), their backs turned to the architectural element that houses the clock face. The face is marked with Roman numerals for the hours and Arabic numerals every five minutes, along with an inscription (MARQUIS / A PARIS). It is surmounted by two putti on clouds supporting a sphere. The movement, of the Paris type, bears two hallmarks: one partially erased and the other clearer (MÉDAILLE D'OR PONS 1827). Honoré Pons (Paris, 1773-1851; active until 1847) was a famous French watchmaker known for having revived the watchmaking industry of Saint-Nicolas d'Aliermont and who received important recognition in 1827 (Gold Medal, Paris Exhibition of 1827), reflecting it on stamps in his creations from that year. Louis-Auguste Marquis (1811-1885) was a bronze worker who worked with fellow bronze worker Gilbert Honoré Chaumont between 1838 and 1844 (specializing in lighting), gaining recognition as early as 1839. Chaumont retired from the business around 1844 and Marquis joined the “Réunion des Fabricants de bronzes” in Paris, becoming the main supplier to royal and imperial palaces. A very similar example is known to exist in the MF Sumtsov Historical Museum in Kharkiv, Ukraine; and two others with allegorical figures and putti in oxidized bronze, one in a private collection and the other in the Collection du Mobilier National de France (inventory GML 11406; also by Louis-Auguste Marquis). It is noteworthy that the female allegorical figures, in turn, follow the designs of a well-known clock, an example of which is held in the Getty Museum, with a movement by Étienne-Augustin Le Roy and bronze by Etienne Martincourt (France, died after 1791, master 1762), dated around 1772, which was in the “salle du counsil” of Louis XVI of France in the Tuileries Palace in Paris (inventory 73.DB.78). Weight: 45 kg , detectedSourceLanguage: es
· Size: 80x28x64 cms
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