A Louis XV gilt-bronze mantel clock of the Arts of Painting and Sculpture, Jean-Baptiste Tintrelin, Paris, circa 1770
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Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
4½-inch enamel dial signed Tintrelin A Paris, finely pierced and engraved hands, the movement with silk suspension, outside count wheel striking on a bell, flat-bottomed plates, the drum flanked by a female figure and a putto emblematic of the Arts; on a later gilt-bronze mounted ebony-veneered plinth
Haut. 43 cm; Height 17 in.
Jean-Baptiste Tintrelin or Tinterelin, clockmaker, received master in 1747.
This clock representing the Arts of Painting and Sculpture is a rather rare variant of the Allegories of the Arts, a recurring theme on clocks during the reign of Louis XVI. A clock representing the allegories of Sculpture and Astronomy is illustrated in Tardy, La Pendule Française, Vol. II, Paris, 1975, p. 257.
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