详情
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'


1612 in. (42 cm.) high; 1214 in. (31 cm.) wide; 714 in. (18.5 cm.) deep
来源
Acquired by Giuseppe Rossi in 1976.
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拍品专文

This splendid architectural rococo fantasy clock is a tour-de-force of the marchand-mercier's 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: 'tanzende Arlequinin', (dancing Harlequine), although a work report for October 1747 quotes the ‘tanzende Arlequinin aus der Italienischen Comödie' 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 Histoire du Théâtre Italien (written by Luigi Riccoboni, published in Paris in 1728) were used as inspiration for the series. Harlequin is loosely based on Joullain's engraving 'Habit d'Arlequin Moderne', 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, Harlequin Unmasked, The Commedia dell'Arte and Porcelain Sculpture, 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.

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