Gilt bronze applique cartel featuring the Venus alarm clock. - Lot 167

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Gilt bronze applique cartel featuring the Venus alarm clock. - Lot 167
Gilt bronze applique cartel featuring the Venus alarm clock. White enameled dial with Roman numerals for the hours and Arabic numerals for the minutes, signed Ferdinand Berthoud (1727-1807) in Paris. The dial is surrounded by broad foliage surmounted by a capital supporting an Amur on its chariot accompanied by two doves, the whole haloed by radiating beams. The lower part features long rocaille foliage supporting a reclining Venus, accompanied by an Amur covering her with a sheet. Louis XV period H.: 110 - L.: 57 cm (Enamel missing from the upper part of the dial, glass to be refixed; wear to the gilding). Provenance: Maurice Segoura Antiquaire, Paris Literature: C. Cardinal, Ferdinand Berthoud 1727-1807:horloger mécanicien du Roiet dela Marine, cat. exhibition, Musée International de l'horlogerie La chaux-de-Fonds (May 18-September 23, 1984), 1984 A somewhat identical model attributed to Jean-Jacques Caffieri is preserved at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and in the collections of the Mobilier National, while another was auctioned at Christie's in New York on October 13, 2023 (lot 409) and came from the former Rothschild collection. Ferdinand Berthoud was awarded the title of Master Watchmaker in Paris in 1753, and later became Horloger Mécanicien du Roi et de la Marine.
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