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A very fine small Louis XVI gilt bronze cartel clock of eight day duration, signed on the white enamel dial Jacques Panier à Paris and also signed Jacques Panier à Paris on the backplate, the magnificent Neo-classical case attributed to Robert and Jean-Baptiste Osmond after a design by Pierre-Antoine Foullet. The dial with Arabic and Roman numerals and a fine pair of pierced gilt brass hands. The movement a timepiece only, with anchor escapement and silk thread suspension. The fine gilt bronze case surmounted by an urn with flame finial draped with berried leaf swags, the sides with fluted pillars with a square glazed pendulum aperture below the dial, with a foliate and berried terminal Paris, date circa 1770 Height 61 cm, width 29 cm. Literature: Hans Ottomeyer and Peter Pröschel, “Vergoldete Bronzen”, 1986, p. 184, pl. 3.8.8, no. 37, illustrating a design by Pierre-Antoine Foullet for this clock case, on a sheet bearing three designs by Foullet and one by Robert Osmond of 1770, in the Bibliothèque Doucet, Paris. Although Pierre-Antoine Foullet (b. circa 1732, maître 1765) is better known as a maître-ébéniste it is clear from the existence of this and several other designs that he supplied clock cases made entirely of bronze. An inventory taken after the death of his father, Antoine Foullet (circa 1710-75, maître-ébéniste 1749), whose workshop he took over, included a number of bronze clock cases. While his father specialized in clock cases, Pierre-Antoine also produced pieces of furniture. Ottomeyer and Pröschel, ibid. mention two other clock and barometer cases made from the same Foullet design, in Luis Montanes, “Catalogo Ilustrado del Museo de Reloges de las Bodegas Zoilo Ruiz-Mateos S/A”, 1977, no. 60. The case was almost certainly made by the esteemed maître-fondeur, Robert Osmond (1711-89, maître 1746) and his nephew Jean-Baptiste Osmond (1742- after 1790, maître 1764), who made another identical case after the same design, illustrated in Ottomeyer and Pröschel, p. 544, pl. 6. Robert Osmond also executed another cartel case after Foullet’s design (no. 36 on the Bibliothèque Doucet sheet, noted above), which houses a movement by Julian Le Roy, now in the Nationalmuseet Stockholm (illustrated in Ottomeyer and Pröschel, p. 185, pl. 3.8.11). The Parisian clock maker, Jacques-Charles Panier, who signed his dials Jacques Panier à Paris became a maître-horloger in 1743. Five years later he was already established at rue Barre de Bec and from 1763-89 at rue de la Verrerie. 1759 saw his appointment as garde and then in 1782 as syndic of his guild. http://www.richardreddingantiques.com/collection/horology/louis-xvi-gilt-bronze-cartel-by-jaques-panier-a-paris |
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