84. Chased and gilded bronze "à l'Étude" clock with brown patina bronze and sea-green marble. marble. It features a draped antique woman draped in antique style, leaning on astronomy and physics books and physics stacked on a terminal in which the movement the movement. Rectangular base in sea-green marble decorated with a bas-relief frieze illustrating Lovers engaged in scientific and artistic artistic work. White enamel dial with Arabic and Roman numerals DEBELLE, rue Saint Honoré, Paris. Date and wire movement. Empire period. H: 70 cm - W: 41.5 cm - D: 17 cm (Some chips on the marble edges, dial enamel restored). With pendulum and key. Probably made by François DEBELLE, a master clockmaker clockmaker in 1781, practicing on rue Saint-Honoré in Paris. A clock of identical design was delivered on August 27, 1808 to the Palais de Compiègne, for the fourth Salon "des Princes" in the of the Emperor's apartments. Bibliography: M.F. Dupuy-Baylet, Pendules du Mobilier national national 1800-1870, éditions Faton, Dijon 2006.
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Lot no. 84

84. Chased and gilded bronze "à l'Étude" clock with brown patina bronze and sea-green marble. marble. It features a draped antique woman draped in antique style, leaning on astronomy and physics books and physics stacked on a terminal in which the movement the movement. Rectangular base in sea-green marble decorated with a bas-relief frieze illustrating Lovers engaged in scientific and artistic artistic work. White enamel dial with Arabic and Roman numerals DEBELLE, rue Saint Honoré, Paris. Date and wire movement. Empire period. H: 70 cm - W: 41.5 cm - D: 17 cm (Some chips on the marble edges, dial enamel restored). With pendulum and key. Probably made by François DEBELLE, a master clockmaker clockmaker in 1781, practicing on rue Saint-Honoré in Paris. A clock of identical design was delivered on August 27, 1808 to the Palais de Compiègne, for the fourth Salon "des Princes" in the of the Emperor's apartments. Bibliography: M.F. Dupuy-Baylet, Pendules du Mobilier national national 1800-1870, éditions Faton, Dijon 2006.

Result
€6,000
Buyer's premium
30%
84. Chased and gilded bronze "à l'Étude" clock with brown patina bronze and sea-green marble. marble. It features a draped antique woman draped in antique style, leaning on astronomy and physics books and physics stacked on a terminal in which the movement the movement. Rectangular base in sea-green marble decorated with a bas-relief frieze illustrating Lovers engaged in scientific and artistic artistic work. White enamel dial with Arabic and Roman numerals DEBELLE, rue Saint Honoré, Paris. Date and wire movement. Empire period. H: 70 cm - W: 41.5 cm - D: 17 cm (Some chips on the marble edges, dial enamel restored). With pendulum and key. Probably made by François DEBELLE, a master clockmaker clockmaker in 1781, practicing on rue Saint-Honoré in Paris. A clock of identical design was delivered on August 27, 1808 to the Palais de Compiègne, for the fourth Salon "des Princes" in the of the Emperor's apartments. Bibliography: M.F. Dupuy-Baylet, Pendules du Mobilier national national 1800-1870, éditions Faton, Dijon 2006.
Sale
Around an important collection of clocks
Tuesday 12 March・14:00 (Europe/Paris)
Salle 2 - Hôtel Drouot 9, rue Drouot 75009 Paris