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GRANDE PENDULE « PSYCHÉ COURONNANT L'AMOUR » en bronze patiné et doré et e
The item was sold for 11 310 €
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LARGE HANGER " PSYCHÉ COURONNANT L'AMOUR " in patinated and gilded bronze and cherry red marble. On either side of the central marble terminal, a large group in patinated bronze depicts " Psyche crowning Love " after Claude Michallon (1751-1799). The dial indicates the hours in Arabic numerals. It surmounts a bas-relief of applied gilt bronze, featuring an oil lamp containing a sword on palmettes. Terrace decorated with a large beam and a frieze of palmettes and supported by four claw feet.France, 19th century.
Height : 91 cm - Width : 54 cm Depth : 26 cm (Accidents, visible lacks)
Variations of this model by other watchmakers are in the Ministry of War in Paris and in the Château de Fontainebleau. The Inventaire général du patrimoine culturel de Lorraine describes in these terms a pair of similar clocks preserved in the former hôtel de l'Intendance de la province des Trois-Évêchés, now the prefecture of Moselle: "This model by Michallon seems to have been extremely successful throughout Europe, since more than a dozen examples have survived under various signatures (Thomire, Feuchère...) with variations in the decoration of the base and the terminal. In addition to the qualities of the model itself, this success can be explained, perhaps, by the link of the subject with the theme of time and thus the function of the object (the mortal Psyche reaching Immortality). None of these clocks is precisely dated, but the oldest ones date from the end of the Empire (around 1814), the model seeming to have been used for several years.
Height : 91 cm - Width : 54 cm Depth : 26 cm (Accidents, visible lacks)
Variations of this model by other watchmakers are in the Ministry of War in Paris and in the Château de Fontainebleau. The Inventaire général du patrimoine culturel de Lorraine describes in these terms a pair of similar clocks preserved in the former hôtel de l'Intendance de la province des Trois-Évêchés, now the prefecture of Moselle: "This model by Michallon seems to have been extremely successful throughout Europe, since more than a dozen examples have survived under various signatures (Thomire, Feuchère...) with variations in the decoration of the base and the terminal. In addition to the qualities of the model itself, this success can be explained, perhaps, by the link of the subject with the theme of time and thus the function of the object (the mortal Psyche reaching Immortality). None of these clocks is precisely dated, but the oldest ones date from the end of the Empire (around 1814), the model seeming to have been used for several years.