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A rare French Louis XVI late 18th century gilt-bronze, white marble and blue enamel clock "Le Sacrifice a l'Amour" the model and bronzes attributed to François Rémond (1747-1812), the movement possibly by Joseph Revel (maître in 1775) and the relief plaque possibly by Etienne Martincourt (active 1762–1800), Paris image 1
A rare French Louis XVI late 18th century gilt-bronze, white marble and blue enamel clock "Le Sacrifice a l'Amour" the model and bronzes attributed to François Rémond (1747-1812), the movement possibly by Joseph Revel (maître in 1775) and the relief plaque possibly by Etienne Martincourt (active 1762–1800), Paris image 2
A rare French Louis XVI late 18th century gilt-bronze, white marble and blue enamel clock "Le Sacrifice a l'Amour" the model and bronzes attributed to François Rémond (1747-1812), the movement possibly by Joseph Revel (maître in 1775) and the relief plaque possibly by Etienne Martincourt (active 1762–1800), Paris image 3
A rare French Louis XVI late 18th century gilt-bronze, white marble and blue enamel clock "Le Sacrifice a l'Amour" the model and bronzes attributed to François Rémond (1747-1812), the movement possibly by Joseph Revel (maître in 1775) and the relief plaque possibly by Etienne Martincourt (active 1762–1800), Paris image 4
A rare French Louis XVI late 18th century gilt-bronze, white marble and blue enamel clock "Le Sacrifice a l'Amour" the model and bronzes attributed to François Rémond (1747-1812), the movement possibly by Joseph Revel (maître in 1775) and the relief plaque possibly by Etienne Martincourt (active 1762–1800), Paris image 5
Lot 46

A rare French Louis XVI late 18th century gilt-bronze, white marble and blue enamel clock "Le Sacrifice a l'Amour"
the model and bronzes attributed to François Rémond (1747-1812), the movement possibly by Joseph Revel (maître in 1775) and the relief plaque possibly by Etienne Martincourt (active 1762–1800), Paris

Europe - Defining Style
9 July 2015, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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A rare French Louis XVI late 18th century gilt-bronze, white marble and blue enamel clock "Le Sacrifice a l'Amour"

the model and bronzes attributed to François Rémond (1747-1812), the movement possibly by Joseph Revel (maître in 1775) and the relief plaque possibly by Etienne Martincourt (active 1762–1800), Paris
surmounted by a flower and fruit-filled urn, flanked to each side by a winged sphinx supporting a central wreath, above a pyramidal-shaped case with detachable front panel depicting a classical scene of Cupid upon a pedestal by a burning athénienne brazier symbolizing The Sacrifice of Love, also known as The Sacrifice to Cupid, with arched opening showing two rotating blue enamel chapter rings with gold-painted numerals, the rectangular base inset with a frieze centred by a mask of Apollo flanked to each side by a foliate spray and a lyre, on scrolling acanthus-cast paw feet, 31cm wide, 16cm deep, 54cm high (12in wide, 6in deep, 21in high).

Footnotes

Literature:
Tardy, Les Plus Belles Pendules Françaises, 1994, p. 256, for an illustration of an identical clock and p. 213, full colour pl. LIII, for an almost identical clock with white enamel dial bands, signed Revel au Palais Royal no 118.
Elke Niehüser, Die Französische Bronzeuhr, 1997, p. 251, pl. 1079, illustrating the almost identical clock signed Revel.

It is interesting to note that the relief panel depicting The Sacrifice of Love, also appears on three secrétaires by Jean-Henri Riesener (two in the Wallace Collection, London and another in the Jean Paul Getty Museum, California). The subject is inspired by the ancient celebration of the feast of Venus. The same subject is also shown on a globe clock portraying Love Triumphing over Time with a movement by the Lepaute workshop of circa 1775 (illustrated in Winthrop Kellogg Edey, French Clocks in North American Collections, The Frick Collection exhibition catalogue, November 1982–January 1983, p. 79, no. 70).

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