Property from a Rothschild Family Collection, formerly on loan at Waddesdon Manor (lots 154-168)
A Louis XVI Neuchateloise ormolu mounted green japanned musical bracket clock, Swiss for the Dutch market, circa 1775
Live auction begins on:
November 19, 01:30 PM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 25,000 GBP
Bid
10,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
13¼-inch enamel dial with inner concentric date and signed Jan Hendrik Kuhn, Amsterdam, the movement Dutch striking hours and half hours on two bells, the cadrature mounted on the backplate, the organ movement below with double fusee and chain motor driving a pinned wooden barrel and playing on fifteen tinned pipes, triggered at the hour by the clock or at will, the waisted case with urn surmount above neo-classical foliate mounts and ribbon-tied swags, on a pale green ground painted with cream flowers, the front with a painted panel depicting a classical scene of two females and a putto; on a conforming bracket,
152.5cm. 5ft. high overall
Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild (1910-1990);
Thence by family descent.
Jan Hendrik Kuhn (1755-1811) was born in Lubeck, Germany and moved to Amsterdam in 1772. He was registered there as a citizen on October 22nd 1775 and built a high reputation for himself as a maker of musical clocks with automata. The present clock is clearly of Swiss origin and from the Neuchatel area. The musical organ movement is particularly remenicent of the work of the famous family Jaquet Droz of La Chaux de Fonds and, in particular, Pierre Jaquet Droz.
A very similar clock with an almost identical musical movement attributed to the Jaquet Droz was sold by Auktionen Dr. Crott, Frankfurt, 15th November 2014, Lot 434.
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