Clock decorated with a Love with Bacchus... - Lot 191 - Beaussant Lefèvre & Associés

Lot 191
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Clock decorated with a Love with Bacchus... - Lot 191 - Beaussant Lefèvre & Associés
Clock decorated with a Love with Bacchus child in biscuit framing the movement, surmounted by a gilded bronze trophy. Hard porcelain base decorated with "Salembier" foliage in monochrome with the inscription "Manufacture de Monsieur le Duc d'Angoulême à Paris". Enamel dial signed "Schmitt à Paris". Wire suspension. Circa 1790. (Accidents). Height: 35 cm - Width: 52 cm - Depth: 10 cm The porcelain manufactory known as "du Duc d'Angoulême" was founded in 1781, rue de Bondy in Paris, by Christopher Dihl, sculptor of statuettes of German origin, in association with Antoine Guérhard, a Parisian bourgeois. Its development was very rapid and the quality of its production was soon compared to that of Sèvres, where it employed the best workers. In 1789 it moved to rue du Temple. Its reputation came in particular for its clocks combining bronze and porcelain biscuits. When Guérhard died in 1791, she provided a living for more than two thousand people, including the staff of the La Crinière quarry. Jean-Nicolas Schmit, received Master in Paris in 1781. Comparative bibliography: - Régine de Plinval, Les biscuits de porcelaine de Paris, Faton, Dijon, page 194, fig. 177. - Pierre Kjellberg, Encyclopédie de la clodule française, Éditions de l'Amateur, Paris, 1997, page 299, fig. D.
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