99th Auction
2019/5/11
Lot 370
Int. (Inventor) Fet. (Fecit) Deverberi et Compe, Rue Barrette à Paris, Height 410 mm, circa 1810
An ornamental Empire ormolu chariot clock with half hour/hour strike, 8-day movement and very rare butterfly automaton "Venus in the Chariot of Love"
Case: ormolu, enamel. Dial: enamel chapter ring. Movm.: rectangular brass full plate movement, 2 large barrels, 1 hammer / 1 bell, short pendulum.
Accompanied by several cupids, Venus and Cupid travel through the clouds in her carriage drawn by doves; the carriage is decorated with eagles. A white enamel chapter ring with Arabic hours represents the wheel. In front of the blue enamel centre sits a pierced, firegilt bronze butterfly, which is connected to the train of the spring-driven 8-day movement. While the clock runs, the butterfly turns. The clock strikes the full hours on a bell and strikes once at the half hour.
Rectangular base on four claw feet, with a relief of putti happily dancing through a sea of clouds.
The chariot began to be used in Parisian clock cases during the Empire period. The watchmakers of the 18th century sought new ways to integrate their dials into these models. In the early 19th century, the dial was often fitted to the chariot wheel itself.
Jean-Simon Deverberie (1764-1824) was an extremely successful designer, bronze manufacturer and marchand-mercier. Until 1800 he was recorded in the rue Barbette; four years later he was at Boulevard du Temple and from 1812 until 1824 his business Deverberie & Compagnie was based at rue des Fosses-du-Temple. Deverberie was the most important artists of his time to create a series of bronzes and almost certainly the first to make a clock case celebrating the theme of the "noble savage".
An ornamental Empire ormolu chariot clock with half hour/hour strike, 8-day movement and very rare butterfly automaton "Venus in the Chariot of Love"
Case: ormolu, enamel. Dial: enamel chapter ring. Movm.: rectangular brass full plate movement, 2 large barrels, 1 hammer / 1 bell, short pendulum.
Accompanied by several cupids, Venus and Cupid travel through the clouds in her carriage drawn by doves; the carriage is decorated with eagles. A white enamel chapter ring with Arabic hours represents the wheel. In front of the blue enamel centre sits a pierced, firegilt bronze butterfly, which is connected to the train of the spring-driven 8-day movement. While the clock runs, the butterfly turns. The clock strikes the full hours on a bell and strikes once at the half hour.
Rectangular base on four claw feet, with a relief of putti happily dancing through a sea of clouds.
The chariot began to be used in Parisian clock cases during the Empire period. The watchmakers of the 18th century sought new ways to integrate their dials into these models. In the early 19th century, the dial was often fitted to the chariot wheel itself.
Jean-Simon Deverberie (1764-1824) was an extremely successful designer, bronze manufacturer and marchand-mercier. Until 1800 he was recorded in the rue Barbette; four years later he was at Boulevard du Temple and from 1812 until 1824 his business Deverberie & Compagnie was based at rue des Fosses-du-Temple. Deverberie was the most important artists of his time to create a series of bronzes and almost certainly the first to make a clock case celebrating the theme of the "noble savage".
estimated
32.000—40.000 €
Price realized
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