Lot n° 567
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POCHON à PARIS Lion vainqueur clock, after a model by Franço - Lot 567
POCHON à PARIS Lion vainqueur clock, after a model by François Vion (1737 - 1790)
Chased and gilded bronze
The roaring lion rests on a base richly decorated with trophies of arms, garlands of grained laurel and oak supporting a framed miniature in the center, the lion carries on its back the round movement on a drapery motif, the mechanism surrounded by a laurel wreath and surmounted by a fire pot and a garland of flowers. The white enamel dial features Roman numerals for the hours, arable numerals for the minutes inscribed from 5 to 5 and a railway track. Wire movement with hour chimes.
White marble counter base on toupie feet, decorated with pearl and acanthus leaf friezes.
H.: 45 cm - W.: 27.5 cm - D.: 15 cm
Transitional Louis XV - Louis XVI period Jean Charles Pochon master circa 1770) (the pendulum and key are attached, part of the pearl frieze on the back is missing)
François Vion Master in 1764
The model of our clock is shown in the inventory of the collections of the Bibliothèque Doucet, Paris (Inventory no.
VI E 15, Rès. fol. 22) and reproduced in: H.Ottomeyer / P.
Pröschel, Bronzes dorés - Les bronzes du baroque tardif et du classicisme, Munich 1976; I, p.192 (fig..11.6).
Two clocks of this model are known; one is in the Pavlovsk collections and originally came from the cabinet of the Prince de Condé.
The second is now in the collections of the Ministry of Finance, Paris, and was once owned by Marie-Antoinette.
Antoinette.
Vion collaborated with Caffieri, Saint-Germain and Osmond.
The Jacques Doucet art and archaeology library in
Paris holds a book of clock drawings, probably by clock merchant Antoine Foullet (12818110) (13)
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