Maison Mottheau et Fils
A Louis XVI Style Gilt-Bronze and Blue Enamel Cartel Clock and Barometer
£75,000
A Louis XVI Style Gilt-Bronze and Blue Enamel Cartel Clock and Barometer, By Maison Mottheau & Fils., Paris. This exceptional cartel clock and aneroid...
Dimensions
Hauteur : 133 cm (53 in)Width: 33 cm (13 in)
Description
A Louis XVI Style Gilt-Bronze and Blue Enamel Cartel Clock and Barometer, By Maison Mottheau & Fils., Paris.
This exceptional cartel clock and aneroid barometer exhibit the finest production of the bronzier Mottheau & Fils of Paris. The clock movement is by Maison Ungerer, Strasbourg. Each designed en suite in the Louis XVI style replete with neoclassical ornament. Each blue tole drum shaped body is surmounted by a flaming torch and flanked by trumpet blowing cherubic herm figures and suspended from a knotted serpent and flower coiled rope. Beneath the dials foliate swags hold musical attributes. All executed in exceptionally finely cast gilt-bronze.
The enamel barometer dial signed ‘Mottheau & fils. A Paris’.
The enamel clock dial signed ‘J & A UNGERER. Strasbourg’.
Stamped to the back ‘EM. 270’.
France, Circa 1900.
Date
Circa 1900
Origine
France
Signature
Signed 'Mottheau & fils / AParis' et 'J & A UNGERER / Strasbourg / TEMPS DERAL'. Stamped 'EM/270' to the reverse.
By family tradition, King Farouk I of Egypt (1920-1965).
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