
PENDULE À LA BACCHANTE. A FINE LOUIS XVI ORMOLU AND WHITE MARBLE SKELETONIZED STRIKING MANTEL CLOCK WITH CALENDAR signed Thierry à Paris last quarter 18th century
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PENDULE À LA BACCHANTE. A FINE LOUIS XVI ORMOLU AND WHITE MARBLE SKELETONIZED STRIKING MANTEL CLOCK WITH CALENDAR
Date: last quarter 18th century
Movement: Circular plates, anchor escapement, thread suspended grapevine wreath pendulum, striking the hour and half hour on a bell by means of a crossed out countwheel, visible calendar work
Dial: Annular white enamel, date ring enclosing arabic chapters with floral swags between
Case: A reclining bacchante supported by a pair of putti astride goats on shaped rectangular marble plinth set with gilt frieze depicting a procession of putti with the infant Bacchus
Size: 20 in (51cm) high
Footnotes
A particularly popular clock attributed to the bronzier Pierre Gouthière based on sketches by Claude-Michel Clodion. It is found with minor variations with movements by several makers including Lépine, Léchopié, Ridel, Folin and others. An example is in the collection of the Museé du Petit Palais, Paris.
Jean-Baptiste Thierry recorded c. 1780 working in the Rue St-Denis, Paris.
Literature.
Adolphe Chapiro. ean-Antoine Lépine, horloger (1988) pp. 226-229
Pierre Kjellberg. Encyclopédie de la Pendule Français (1997) p. 268
Elke Niehüser. French Bronze Clocks (1999) p. 205, figs. 195-196
Hans Ottomeyer and Peter Pröschel Eds. Vergoldete Bronzen, (1986), v. I, p. 280, fig. 4.13.1 and 4.13.3
Tardy. La Pendule Français (1969) v. 2, p. 239