Gilded bronze clock featuring an "elephant with raised trunk - Lot 210

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Gilded bronze clock featuring an "elephant with raised trunk - Lot 210
Gilded bronze clock featuring an "elephant with raised trunk"; the movement case is red lacquered and the elephant is in patinated bronze. The natural-finish base is decorated with flowers, and the movement is topped by a wading bird with a dog. Enamel dial with Arabic and Roman numerals separated by gilded fleurs-de-lis, signed Jn Baptiste Baillon. Movement plate signed J.B. Baillon in Paris No. 3913. By Jean Joseph de Saint Germain (unsigned). Circa 1740. (A small piece is missing from the back of the base.) Height: 45 cm - Width: 33 cm - Depth: 19 cm Jean Joseph de Saint Germain, 1719–1791, admitted as a master in 1746, was a renowned Parisian castor and engraver of the mid-18th century, specializing in particular in “clock cases and elephant cases,” and left behind a significant body of work. The son of a cabinetmaker who made clock cases, he was elected to the jury in 1765, a position he held for several years. He established his workshop on Rue Saint Nicolas from 1743 to 1775, when he retired. He had built up a substantial clientele comprising watchmakers, haberdashers, and aristocrats such as the Duchess of Orléans, the Dukes of Tallard and Pralins, the Marquises of Pange and Eaubonne, the financier Blondel de Gagny, the Duchess of Parma, Kings Adolph Frederick of Sweden and Augustus III of Poland, the Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, and the Electors of Bavaria Jean Baptiste III Baillon, 1702–1772, admitted as a master in 1727, a prominent member of a great dynasty of watchmakers, first established on Place Dauphine and later on Rue Dauphine, was considered one of the finest watchmakers of his time. He served as Valet de chambre horloger to the Queen and later to the Dauphine. In addition to his Parisian workshop, he established his own manufactory in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, which operated from 1748 to 1765. Comparative bibliography: - H. Ottomeyer, P. Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, vol. I, p. 124, fig. 2.8.5. - R. Colon de Carvajal, Catalogo de relojes del Patrimonio nacional, Madrid, 1987, p. 23, no. 4. - Auction, Beaussant Lefèvre, Paris, March 20, 2026, lot 167 (signed St Germain) - Auction, Artcurial, Paris, December 13, 2023, lot 21. - Auction, Var enchères, May 19, 2019."
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