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A Large Louis XVI Style Patinated Bronze and Marble Figural Pedestal Clock
£55,000
A Large Louis XVI Style Patinated Bronze and Rouge Griotte Marble Figural Pedestal Clock. The patinated bronze figural group of Bacchantes is cast from...
Dimensions
Height: 124 cm (49 in)Width: 38 cm (15 in)
Profondeur : 38 cm (15 in)
ImprimerDescription
A Large Louis XVI Style Patinated Bronze and Rouge Griotte Marble Figural Pedestal Clock.
The patinated bronze figural group of Bacchantes is cast from a model by Claude Michel, known as Clodion (French, 1738-1814). It is set atop a Rouge Griotte marble fluted column filled with gilt-bronze flower chains. On a square foot with laurel wreath surround. Fronted by a dial with leaf-cast bezel and black enamelled dial with fine-minute markers and Roman numerals. Pierced and engraved brass hands. The brass twin train movement with outside countwheel striking on a bell, with pendulum and winding key.
The clock dial signed Agnew & Sons, Paris.
France, Circa 1900.
On a later simulated porphyry painted pedestal.
Height of pedestal: 92 cm | 36 inches.
Height together with pedestal: 216 cm | 85 inches.
This impressive pediment clock was made in France for the celebrated English firm of art dealers Agnew & Sons who opened gallery premises in Paris in 1907 at 22 Place Vendôme.
Date
Circa 1900
Origine
France
Moyen
Marbre et bronze patiné
Signature
The clock dial signed Agnew & Sons, Paris.
The son-in-law of sculptor Augustin Pajou, Clodion, (Claude Michel), (1738-1814), trained in Paris in the workshops of his uncle and Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, the most successful sculptor of the time. After winning the Prix de Rome, he moved to Italy, sharing a studio with Jean-Antoine Houdon and studying antique, Renaissance, and Baroque sculpture.
In 1771 Clodion returned to Paris, where he continued to produce mostly in terracotta. He also worked with his brothers in other media, decorating objects such as candelabra, clocks, and vases. Drawing primarily from pagan antiquity, he created light-hearted terracotta sculptures that epitomised the Rococo style. Late in his life, when Neo-classical works were more popular, Clodion adjusted his style and worked on major public monuments in Paris.
