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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
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Mar 22, 2017 | Christie's | London | Robert de Balkany Rome & the Côte d'Azur | 124 | $****** - ****** | A LOUIS XIV ORMOLU STRIKING MANTEL CLOCK, THE GLASS DIAL WITH LUNAR AND FULL TERRESTRIAL CALENDARS |
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92.1 x 63.5 x 26 cm (36.25 x 25 x 10.25 in)
Almost certainly commissioned from François Richard for Elisabeth-Charlotte d'Orléans (1676-1744) for her Grand Cabinet at the château de Lunéville, until moved circa 1737 to the château de Commercy, and by descent to either:
- her eldest son Francis I (1708 -1765) Holy Roman Emperor and Grand Duke of Tuscany;
- or her daughter Anne Charlotte abbesse de l'Abbaye de Sainte-Waudru, Mons;
- or her second son Charles-Alexandre de Lorraine (1712-1780), Gouverneur des Pays-Bas Autrichiens, and his spouse Archduchess Marie-Anne (sister of Maria-Theresa of Austria, wife of Charles' eldest brother Francois I);
- or to Anne-Marguerite de Ligniville (1686-1772), comtesse du Saint-Empire and princesse de Beauvau-Craon, dame d'honneur to Elisabeth-Charlotte d'Orléans at the château de Lunéville, through the exercise of her droit de charge.
Comtesse d'Yvon, spouse of Comte d'Yvon, Inspecteur du Garde-Meuble de la couronne, sold 'Vente de Madame d'Yvon', Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 30 May - 4 June 1892, lot 497 (described as part of a garniture de cheminée en bronze doré, comprising: d'une pendule-cage laissant voir un movement à triple cadran marquant les heures, les minutes, les mois et les phases de la lune. De chaque quôté sont des figures d'amour debout tenant l'un, une torche enflammée, l'autre, un rameau. Comme couronnement, un groupe: Junon et l'aigle dans les nuages; socle orné de mascarons et d'ornements à volutes, supporté par des groupes de dauphins), where acquired by M. Thirion, 15 rue Vivienne (for 2,650 francs).
Prince Ruspoli of Poggio Suasa (1838-1899), Rome, and thence by descent, until sold,
'The Property of a Nobleman', sold Christie's London, 20 June 1985, lot 38.
The Exceptional Sale; Christie's, London, 7 July 2011, lot 42.
Almost certainly described in F. Husson, Eloge historique de Jacques Callot, Brussels, 1766, p. IX, '...Pendule, dont les Platines & le Cadran étoient de Cristal, & dont on voyoit toutes les Roues se mouvir..'.
L. Germain, 'Journal de la Société d'Archéologie Lorraine et du Musée Historique Lorrain', 1892, pp. 225-228
Tardy, Dictionnaire des Horlogers Français, vol II, Paris, 1971, pp. 553-554.
J.Charles-Gaffiot (ed.), Lunéville Fastes du Versailles lorrain, exhibition catalogue, Paris, 2003, p. 77.
J.Charles-Gaffiot, Le Mobilier d'Apparat des Palais Lorrains sous les règnes des duc Léopold et François III, Metz, 2009, p. 34 and p. 36.
The case surmounted by Aegina on the back of Jupiter in the form of an eagle rising from flames, the glass dial engraved and gilded from the reverse, its arch with a cartouche bearing the arms of Elisabeth Charlotte of Orléans, the Roman chapter ring with an inner concentric minute ring, with subsidiary rings below inscribed 'JOURS DE MOIS' giving day of the week and date and 'JOURS DE LA LUNE', giving month and the days of the lunar month, signed below 'F. RICHARD / A LUNEVILLE', all rings with pierced and engraved blued steel hands beneath the glass dial, the movement replaced and altered, probably circa 1850, suspended with four brass brackets, with twin barrels, now converted to anchor escapement and with pierced countwheel strike to bell, with later calendar work to pierced extended front plate below
