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A Very Fine and Important Palatial Louis XV Style 19th/20th Century Figural Gilt-Bronze White Marble Mantel Clock with Figures of Cherubs, the enamel dial with Arabic numerals and foliate pierced gilt hands. Attributed to Alfred-Emmanuel-Louis Beurdeley, The Movement by Samuel Marti who is known to have worked with Beurdeley. All original mercury gilt. Circa: Paris, 1900.
Height: 24 inches (61 cm)
Width: 27 inches (68.6 cm)
Depth: 11 inches (28 cm)
Beurdeley, Alfred Emmanuel Louis (French, 1847-1919): Work at first with his father in Paris and eventually succeeded him. He kept the shop at rue Louis-Le-Grand and had worked at Nos. 20 ˆ 24 rue Dautancourt. The business continued in its traditional style with very few variations, until it was closed in 1895 and the remaining contents of the company were sold at the Galerie Geroges Petit. Beurdeley exhibited at the 1878 Exhibition
LITERATURE AND REFERENCES:
Tardy, The Most Beautiful French Clocks, Paris, 1994, pp. 162-163 for illustrations of similar eighteenth century dial know as à la dauphine by Cotteau and Dubuisson. Ottomeyer/Proschel, Vergoldete Bronzen I, Munich, 1986.
Ref.: A1481
The model of this clock can be found in the Beurdeley sale in 1895, 6-9 May: Catalogue of Furniture and Works of Art made in the workshop and under the direction of M.A. Beurdeley, lot number 46, described as Pendule de style Louis XV, en marbre blanc, avec groupes d'amours dans le goût de Boucher, tenant des guirlandes de fleurs en bronze ciselé et doré au mat. Le socle en marbre blanc est enrichi de rinceaux et de guirlandes en bronze doré Haut. 68 cent. Larg. 68 cent. It was bought by M. Martin Fuld for 1600 francs or.
This model can also be found in the Catalogue des modèles pour bronzes d'art, meubles de style et de grande décoration provenant de la Maison A.Beurdeley, in 1897, 19-22 October, under the lot number 50, described as follows: Pendule Louis XVI, enfants aux nuages.
It relates to a model made circa 1780, illustrated in H. Ottomeyer & P. Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, Vol. I, p. 251, no. 4.6.23.
The same model of clock, by Emmanuel Alfred Beurdeley, executed with a red marble, sold Sotheby's New York, 28th November 2006, lot 272 ($ 108,000).
The old photograph below features this model of mantel clock in the Beurdeley's workshop archives.