THE CLOCK BY ETIENNE LENOIR, PARIS, CIRCA 1740, THE MEISSEN FIGURES, CIRCA 1743-50, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK TO BACK OF BASE OF HARLEQUINE, THE PORCELAIN FLOWERS, FRENCH, 18TH CENTURY AND LATER

Name: A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED AND MEISSEN PORCELAIN STRIKING MANTEL CLOCK
Brand: THE CLOCK BY ETIENNE LENOIR, PARIS, CIRCA 1740, THE MEISSEN FIGURES, CIRCA 1743-50, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK TO BACK OF BASE OF HARLEQUINE, THE PORCELAIN FLOWERS, FRENCH, 18TH CENTURY AND LATER
Price: 14000.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

Price Realised GBP 17,500

Estimate

GBP 15,000 - GBP 25,000

Closed: 15 Oct 2020

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A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED AND MEISSEN PORCELAIN STRIKING MANTEL CLOCK

THE CLOCK BY ETIENNE LENOIR, PARIS, CIRCA 1740, THE MEISSEN FIGURES, CIRCA 1743-50, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK TO BACK OF BASE OF HARLEQUINE, THE PORCELAIN FLOWERS, FRENCH, 18TH CENTURY AND LATER

Price Realised GBP 17,500

Closed: 15 Oct 2020

Price Realised GBP 17,500

Closed: 15 Oct 2020

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The rococo body with porcelain flowerheads issuing from leafy branches, the lower gallery mounted with a dancing Harlequine figure from the Duke of Weissenfels series, modelled by Peter Reinicke, a Harlequin figure, probably modelled by J.J. Kändler, and a dancing child Harlequine, the white enamel dial with pierced gilt hands and signed 'Etienne Lenoir', the twin barrel movement with silk suspension and regulation, countwheel strike to bell, the plates joined by five baluster pillars, the backplate further signed 'Etienne Le Noir A Paris' and numbered '390'

16¹⁄₂ in. (42 cm.) high; 12¹⁄₄ in. (31 cm.) wide; 7¹⁄₄ in. (18.5 cm.) deep

Acquired by Giuseppe Rossi in 1976.

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Lot Essay

This splendid architectural rococo fantasy clock is a of the art, skillfully combining a family of Meissen Commedia dell’ Arte figures and French porcelain flowers with luxurious ormolu. The figure of dancing Harlequine, or Columbine, was recorded in Reinicke's work book for October 1744: , (dancing Harlequine), although a work report for October 1747 quotes the ‘ as the last model of the Weissenfels series, the series of twenty Italian Comedy figures made for Adolph II, Duke of Weissenfels, between 1743 and 1744 by Reinicke and Kändler. The engravings by François Joullain in the (written by Luigi Riccoboni, published in Paris in 1728) were used as inspiration for the series. Harlequin is loosely based on Joullain's engraving , but his companion Harlequine was not modelled after one of Joullain's engravings. The examples in the The George R. Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, Toronto, are illustrated by Meredith Chilton, , Singapore, 2001, p. 310 no. 104 (Harlequine) and p. 309, nos. 102-103 (Harlequin). A similar pair of figures from the Patricia Hart collection were sold Christie's, London, 5 June 2012, lot 2. A closely realated clock was sold from the collection of Mrs Margaret Thompson Biddle, Ader Picard Tajan, Paris, 14 June 1977, lot 80.