95th Auction
2017/5/6
Lot 230
Antoine Redier à Paris / Dreyfus Fréres à Bienne, Movement No. 8865, Height 225 mm, circa 1890
A remarkable and rare ornamental table clock decorated with marquetry and Chinese-style motifs
Case: wood/ivory veneer/bronze/gilt brass. Dial: applied Chinese gilt brass numerals. Movm.: rectangular brass full plate movement, 1 barrel, platform with lever escapement, ring balance.
The ivory veneer wooden case has a balustrade of stylised Chinese carving with an applied three-dimensional dragon on each side; on the top sits the gilt cast brass figure of a praying monk. The high rectangular case rests on a gilt brass base on four dragon feet. All surfaces are decorated with fine marquetry: bronze and copper branches and wooden petals. There are also applied polychrome metal flowers in relief as well as plants, insects, a salamander and a turtle. The bronze hands are in the form of a Chinese dragon - an extravagant clock with so many striking details that we know of no other like it.
Joseph-Antoine-Jean Redier (1817-1892) was a French clockmaker and inventor. Redier attended the clockmaking school in Paris and invented a compass with a special equidistant circle (1835) during his time there. In 1847 he invented the alarm and the so-called "pendules huitaines ", which revolutionized the watchmaking industry. Redier was made a knight of the Legion of Honour in 1863 and an officer in 1878.
Source: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine_Redier, as of 10/06/2011
A remarkable and rare ornamental table clock decorated with marquetry and Chinese-style motifs
Case: wood/ivory veneer/bronze/gilt brass. Dial: applied Chinese gilt brass numerals. Movm.: rectangular brass full plate movement, 1 barrel, platform with lever escapement, ring balance.
The ivory veneer wooden case has a balustrade of stylised Chinese carving with an applied three-dimensional dragon on each side; on the top sits the gilt cast brass figure of a praying monk. The high rectangular case rests on a gilt brass base on four dragon feet. All surfaces are decorated with fine marquetry: bronze and copper branches and wooden petals. There are also applied polychrome metal flowers in relief as well as plants, insects, a salamander and a turtle. The bronze hands are in the form of a Chinese dragon - an extravagant clock with so many striking details that we know of no other like it.
Joseph-Antoine-Jean Redier (1817-1892) was a French clockmaker and inventor. Redier attended the clockmaking school in Paris and invented a compass with a special equidistant circle (1835) during his time there. In 1847 he invented the alarm and the so-called "pendules huitaines ", which revolutionized the watchmaking industry. Redier was made a knight of the Legion of Honour in 1863 and an officer in 1878.
Source: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine_Redier, as of 10/06/2011
Sold
estimated
3.000—6.000 €
Price realized
6.500 €