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AN IMPORTANT FIGURAL CLOCK COMMEMORATING AN INCIDENT DURING THE REIGN OF KING LOUIS-PHILIPPE OF FRANCE inscribed: "Le Roi Louis Philippe saigne sa propre main & rappelle à la vie le courrier de cabinet Werner [sic] tombé de cheval sous les roues de sa voiture le 27 Octobre 1833" Circa 1838
14 April 2022, 13:00 EDT
New YorkSold for US$8,287.50 inc. premium
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AN IMPORTANT FIGURAL CLOCK COMMEMORATING AN INCIDENT DURING THE REIGN OF KING LOUIS-PHILIPPE OF FRANCE
inscribed: "Le Roi Louis Philippe saigne sa propre main & rappelle à la vie le courrier de cabinet Werner [sic] tombé de cheval sous les roues de sa voiture le 27 Octobre 1833"
Date: Circa 1838
Movement: With anchor escapement, now striking the hour and half hour on a gong by means of a count wheel, rectangular front plate with calendar work (in disrepair); with the trademark of Honore Pons
Case: The tableau of Louis-Philippe, the Duc d'Orleans and an orderly tending to the fallen courier on a monumental shaped rectangular plinth with scroll base, putti to the corners and applied leaf and scroll rosettes, centering a cast dial plate with roman chapter disc flanked by enamel subsidiary 24-hour, day, date, and moon phase dials, pierced gilt scroll hands
Size: Height 27 in (70 cm); width 15 ½ in (39 cm); depth 12 ¾ in (32 cm)
Date: Circa 1838
Movement: With anchor escapement, now striking the hour and half hour on a gong by means of a count wheel, rectangular front plate with calendar work (in disrepair); with the trademark of Honore Pons
Case: The tableau of Louis-Philippe, the Duc d'Orleans and an orderly tending to the fallen courier on a monumental shaped rectangular plinth with scroll base, putti to the corners and applied leaf and scroll rosettes, centering a cast dial plate with roman chapter disc flanked by enamel subsidiary 24-hour, day, date, and moon phase dials, pierced gilt scroll hands
Size: Height 27 in (70 cm); width 15 ½ in (39 cm); depth 12 ¾ in (32 cm)
Footnotes
The clock depicts King Louis-Philippe and the Duke of Orleans and commemorates an incident widely reported in the press of the time (Le Charivari, October 29, 1833). The king himself had come to the aid of a courier by the name of Vernet who fell from his horse while listening to the king's orders. The anecdote quickly became an allegory of the king's kindness to his people and the image was used for political purposes, helping to give a more human image of the new French monarchy.
It was the subject of several representations, notably this 1834 drawing by Alfred Johannot titled "King Louis-Philippe Tending His Courier Vernet" in the collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
The clock was ordered for the "personal expenses of the King" in a written record dated December 24, 1838 in the Archives Nationales (national archives), (A.N .: O 1728, memory). The document mentions payment made to "Jean, bronze maker, n ° 291, rue et carré Saint-Martin Paris for the execution price of a clock representing SM bleeding the courier Werner and intended for SM the duchess of 'Orleans."
Several examples of the clock are recorded. An identical clock, but omitting the orderly, now in the French Ministry of the Interior appears in the general inventory of National Furniture.
(https://collection.mobiliernational.culture.gouv.fr/objet/GML-11036-000).
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