97th Auction
2018/5/12
Lot 393
Jaques Bellot à Genève, Height 160 mm, circa 1805
An important early carriage clock of high quality with quarter hour / hour self strike and calendar - with original key
Case: burnished bronze, partially gilt, engraved bun feet, cornice with dentil pattern, the angles decorated with finely cast Corinthian 3/4 columns, glazed front, waved handle on top. Dial: silver, engine-turned. Movm.: round brass full plate movement, keywind, 2 hammers / 2 bells, 30h power reserve, 2 barrels / chain / fusee, polished rack strike levers applied on the back side, verge escapement, three-arm brass balance.
Illustrated and described in: Lodovico Magistretti and Luigi Pippa "I Ritmi del Tempo - Storia ed evoluzione della Pendulette de voyage", Milan 1998, p. 48 and 69.
Jacques Bellot
Charles Allix called this type of carriage clock "pre-pendule de voyage"; it dates to the early 18th century or earlier.
According to Tardy, Jacques Bellot worked for the manufactory in Versailles around 1795. This was the year when Abraham-Louis Breguet received orders to reorganize the manufactory. In 1796 Nicolas-Constant Lemaire and Glaesner were directors of the manufactory and Lemaire also had a workshop which produced luxury clocks. He and Bellot submitted a petition to the Agricultural and Arts Council which suggested the foundation of a state-aided body for the production of all kinds of clocks. This body was subsequently established and staffed with employees from Geneva.
An important early carriage clock of high quality with quarter hour / hour self strike and calendar - with original key
Case: burnished bronze, partially gilt, engraved bun feet, cornice with dentil pattern, the angles decorated with finely cast Corinthian 3/4 columns, glazed front, waved handle on top. Dial: silver, engine-turned. Movm.: round brass full plate movement, keywind, 2 hammers / 2 bells, 30h power reserve, 2 barrels / chain / fusee, polished rack strike levers applied on the back side, verge escapement, three-arm brass balance.
Illustrated and described in: Lodovico Magistretti and Luigi Pippa "I Ritmi del Tempo - Storia ed evoluzione della Pendulette de voyage", Milan 1998, p. 48 and 69.
Jacques Bellot
Charles Allix called this type of carriage clock "pre-pendule de voyage"; it dates to the early 18th century or earlier.
According to Tardy, Jacques Bellot worked for the manufactory in Versailles around 1795. This was the year when Abraham-Louis Breguet received orders to reorganize the manufactory. In 1796 Nicolas-Constant Lemaire and Glaesner were directors of the manufactory and Lemaire also had a workshop which produced luxury clocks. He and Bellot submitted a petition to the Agricultural and Arts Council which suggested the foundation of a state-aided body for the production of all kinds of clocks. This body was subsequently established and staffed with employees from Geneva.
estimated
11.000—15.000 €
Price realized
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