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RARE PENDULE DITE SQUELETTE
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RARE PENDULE DITE SQUELETTE
RARE SQUELETTE HANGER in chased and gilt bronze and enamel| the main dial indicates the hours, minutes, seconds, date and days of the week.
It is surmounted by a secondary dial, also annular, indicating the dates of the moon. The movement is supported by two arches, the enamelled face decorated with gold stars standing out against a blue background.
In the centre, a cartouche signed RIDEL in Paris.
The enamels are attributed to Joseph COTEAU.
It rests on a quadrangular base in white Carrara marble which has partially preserved its boldly painted decoration of rose garlands and an eagle with spread wings.
The pendulum is decorated with pearls and a sun.
Small bent feet.
Late Louis XVI period
H: 50 - W: 28,5 - D: 14,8 cm
Some chips and restorations, stamp restored
The French 18th century is probably the period in the European decorative arts during which craftsmen showed the greatest imagination. Indeed, there was an exceptional renewal of forms and motifs and the invention of new models that had previously been absent from the aesthetic repertoire or almost never used.
In the field of watchmaking, particularly in the second half of the century, craftsmen showed a rare creativity to elaborate models of clocks with more and more accomplished compositions which most often contained movements elaborated by the best Parisian master watchmakers of the time. The "skeleton" type of clock was created in this particular context| it allowed the complexity of the mechanisms to be seen by the spectators and emphasized the elegance of the deliberately bare compositions, often consisting only of a frame supporting the dial or dials. For the most luxurious examples, these frames were covered with a more or less refined enamel decoration.
MOA2021
RARE SQUELETTE HANGER in chased and gilt bronze and enamel| the main dial indicates the hours, minutes, seconds, date and days of the week.
It is surmounted by a secondary dial, also annular, indicating the dates of the moon. The movement is supported by two arches, the enamelled face decorated with gold stars standing out against a blue background.
In the centre, a cartouche signed RIDEL in Paris.
The enamels are attributed to Joseph COTEAU.
It rests on a quadrangular base in white Carrara marble which has partially preserved its boldly painted decoration of rose garlands and an eagle with spread wings.
The pendulum is decorated with pearls and a sun.
Small bent feet.
Late Louis XVI period
H: 50 - W: 28,5 - D: 14,8 cm
Some chips and restorations, stamp restored
The French 18th century is probably the period in the European decorative arts during which craftsmen showed the greatest imagination. Indeed, there was an exceptional renewal of forms and motifs and the invention of new models that had previously been absent from the aesthetic repertoire or almost never used.
In the field of watchmaking, particularly in the second half of the century, craftsmen showed a rare creativity to elaborate models of clocks with more and more accomplished compositions which most often contained movements elaborated by the best Parisian master watchmakers of the time. The "skeleton" type of clock was created in this particular context| it allowed the complexity of the mechanisms to be seen by the spectators and emphasized the elegance of the deliberately bare compositions, often consisting only of a frame supporting the dial or dials. For the most luxurious examples, these frames were covered with a more or less refined enamel decoration.
MOA2021