PENDULE dite " à l'Africaine " Clock symbolizing... Lot 75
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PENDULE dite " à l'Africaine " Clock symbolizing Africa in patinated bronze and gilded bronze, featuring a black huntress seated on the movement, dressed in a loincloth, adorned with a necklace, carrying a quiver and holding a bow, accompanied by a feline and a tortoise.Sulfide eyes.Base adorned with a bas-relief with Putti symbolizing fishing, agriculture and hunting. Enamel dial with Roman and Arabic numerals signed Normant, Paris. Six toupie feet.
First half of the 19th century.
H: 45 cm - L: 37 cm
The taste for exoticism in vogue in the 18th century, due in particular to the writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Bernardin de Saint Pierre, William Defoe and Chateaubriand, gave rise to a number of "negro" clocks representing trades (porters, nannies, sailors, gardeners, etc.), allegories (America and Africa) or literary subjects (Atala, Robinson Crusoe), all with a black character.
Most were designed by Simon Deverberie (1764- 1824), bronzemaker and merchant, based in rue des Fossés du temple from 1801 to 1821, who deposited his model drawings with the Cabinet des estampes on 3 Pluviose an VII ( e 30-fol). They were engraved and published in a collection entitled "Modèles de Pendules" kept at the Bibliothèque Nationale (4 RES 121) with the title: "Inventé par De Verberie et Cgnie, Tout se fait dans leur manufacture le bronze la dorure et l'Horlogerie rue des Fossés du temple n° 47 à Paris".
Comparative bibliography:
H.Ottomeyer, P.Proschel, Vergoldete bronzen, Munich, 1986, page 81
Musée de Saint Omer , Hôtel Sandelin " La pendule au nègre" 1978, N°16
P.Kjelberg. Encyclopédie de la pendule française . Editions de l'Amateur, Paris 1997, page 351
Similar example:
Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris (inv.35 193)
Experts: Jacques Bacot and Hughes de Lencquesaing
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