92nd Auction
2015/11/14
Lot 427
Guglielmo Meuron à Bologne, Height 260 mm, circa 1770
An ornamental rococo miniature pendulum clock with alarm
Case: ormulu, rococo base lavishly ornamented with volutes, acanthus and flower heads, applied patinated bronze sculpture of a bull carrying the richly ornamented clock on its back. Dial: enamel, radial Roman hours, signed, single alarm hand with half-moon tip, Louis XVI-hands. Movm.: round verge watch movement, gilt plate, keywind, verge escapement, three-arm brass balance, engraved and florally pierced balance bridge, 1 hammer / 1 bell.
An ornamental pendulum clock in the collection of F. Perrez de Olaguer-Feliu in Barcelona that has an identical bull is described and illustrated in "Die Französische Bronzeuhr" by Elke Niehueser, Munich 1997, p. 240.
An ornamental rococo miniature pendulum clock with alarm
Case: ormulu, rococo base lavishly ornamented with volutes, acanthus and flower heads, applied patinated bronze sculpture of a bull carrying the richly ornamented clock on its back. Dial: enamel, radial Roman hours, signed, single alarm hand with half-moon tip, Louis XVI-hands. Movm.: round verge watch movement, gilt plate, keywind, verge escapement, three-arm brass balance, engraved and florally pierced balance bridge, 1 hammer / 1 bell.
An ornamental pendulum clock in the collection of F. Perrez de Olaguer-Feliu in Barcelona that has an identical bull is described and illustrated in "Die Französische Bronzeuhr" by Elke Niehueser, Munich 1997, p. 240.
Sold
estimated
5.000—10.000 €
Price realized
5.500 €