95th Auction
2017/5/6
Lot 150
Breguet No. 291, Movement No. 1155, Case No. 1953, Breguet No. B631, 106 mm, 988 g, circa 1805
An important coach clock of historical interest, with quarter repeater and alarm - sold as no. 1155 to Monsieur Salabert for Madame de Santa Cruz on 18. Floréal XIII (May 8, 1805) for 1,440 francs. Reacquired and sold again on June 9, 1837 to Monsieur le Comte de Mercy-Argenteau for 620 francs. With key no. B1155 and Breguet extract from the archives no. 4454
Case: silver, inner lid with sound openings, case maker's punch mark "PBT" (Pierre-Benjamin Tavernier), rear bell. Dial: enamel, signed. Movm.: full plate movement, chain/fusee, additional barrels for striking and alarm, 4 hammers, verge escapement, three-arm brass balance.
Pierre de Salabert (1735-1807) was minister of state in the Duchy of Palatine Zweibrücken and in the Electorate of Bavaria.
Salabert must have been a somewhat oddball character at the court of Palatine Zweibrücken. Coming from a middle-class background he was ordained as a priest in Metz. From 1760 on he had the position of religious tutor to the princes Carl August and Max Joseph. Supported by the duke, Salabert received a noble title and became titular abbot of the Benedictine abbey St. Mauritius in Tholey in 1770; this was a position that brought him a considerable annual income but did not require him to do anything. After the death of Christian IV in 1775, Salabert moved to the court of Countess Marianne von der Leyen; it was here at Catle Blieskastel that he was rumoured to have conducted an affair with the widowed lady of the manor, which led to him being described as an insatiable lecher. Later he moved to a lavish palais near Homburg, given to him by his former pupil Carl August. After the French Revolution Salabert put up high-ranking emigrés from Paris in his house. Together with the duke of Zweibrücken Charles II August Christian, Salabert fled to Mannheim in 1793, where he remained until the duke’s death. He was accused to have handed Mannheim over to the French revolutionary army and in 1794 Mannheim was besieged and bombarded by the imperial troops. From 1799 on Salabert lived in Munich, where he had a palais built by the architect Karl von Fischer in 1804; the palais near the Hofgartengalerie is known today as Prince Carl Palais.
Sources: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_de_Salabert and www.schloss-carlsberg.de, as of 03/07/2017
Doña Joaquina Téllez-Girón y Pimentel, Marquise of Santa Cruz, Grandee of Spain, suo jure 2nd Countess of Osilo (es: Doña Joaquina Téllez-Girón, marquesa de Santa Cruz; 21 September 1784 — 17 November 1851) was a daughter of Pedro Téllez-Girón, 9th Duke of Osuna and María Josefa Pimentel, 12th Countess-Duchess of Benavente. She is best-known as the subject of an 1805 portrait by Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes, a family friend.
Francois Joseph Charles Marie Comte de Mercy Argenteau et d'Ochain, Prince de Montglion, Comte du Dongelberg (1780-1869) served Napoleon I as a "grand chambellan" and an ambassador and minister plenipotentiary to Munich. After the fall of the Napoleonic empire and the creation of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, he became the Governor of Brabant and the "grand chambellan" of King Willem I. Retired he lived by Liege. He died in Argenteau on January 25, 1869.
An important coach clock of historical interest, with quarter repeater and alarm - sold as no. 1155 to Monsieur Salabert for Madame de Santa Cruz on 18. Floréal XIII (May 8, 1805) for 1,440 francs. Reacquired and sold again on June 9, 1837 to Monsieur le Comte de Mercy-Argenteau for 620 francs. With key no. B1155 and Breguet extract from the archives no. 4454
Case: silver, inner lid with sound openings, case maker's punch mark "PBT" (Pierre-Benjamin Tavernier), rear bell. Dial: enamel, signed. Movm.: full plate movement, chain/fusee, additional barrels for striking and alarm, 4 hammers, verge escapement, three-arm brass balance.
Pierre de Salabert (1735-1807) was minister of state in the Duchy of Palatine Zweibrücken and in the Electorate of Bavaria.
Salabert must have been a somewhat oddball character at the court of Palatine Zweibrücken. Coming from a middle-class background he was ordained as a priest in Metz. From 1760 on he had the position of religious tutor to the princes Carl August and Max Joseph. Supported by the duke, Salabert received a noble title and became titular abbot of the Benedictine abbey St. Mauritius in Tholey in 1770; this was a position that brought him a considerable annual income but did not require him to do anything. After the death of Christian IV in 1775, Salabert moved to the court of Countess Marianne von der Leyen; it was here at Catle Blieskastel that he was rumoured to have conducted an affair with the widowed lady of the manor, which led to him being described as an insatiable lecher. Later he moved to a lavish palais near Homburg, given to him by his former pupil Carl August. After the French Revolution Salabert put up high-ranking emigrés from Paris in his house. Together with the duke of Zweibrücken Charles II August Christian, Salabert fled to Mannheim in 1793, where he remained until the duke’s death. He was accused to have handed Mannheim over to the French revolutionary army and in 1794 Mannheim was besieged and bombarded by the imperial troops. From 1799 on Salabert lived in Munich, where he had a palais built by the architect Karl von Fischer in 1804; the palais near the Hofgartengalerie is known today as Prince Carl Palais.
Sources: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_de_Salabert and www.schloss-carlsberg.de, as of 03/07/2017
Doña Joaquina Téllez-Girón y Pimentel, Marquise of Santa Cruz, Grandee of Spain, suo jure 2nd Countess of Osilo (es: Doña Joaquina Téllez-Girón, marquesa de Santa Cruz; 21 September 1784 — 17 November 1851) was a daughter of Pedro Téllez-Girón, 9th Duke of Osuna and María Josefa Pimentel, 12th Countess-Duchess of Benavente. She is best-known as the subject of an 1805 portrait by Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes, a family friend.
Francois Joseph Charles Marie Comte de Mercy Argenteau et d'Ochain, Prince de Montglion, Comte du Dongelberg (1780-1869) served Napoleon I as a "grand chambellan" and an ambassador and minister plenipotentiary to Munich. After the fall of the Napoleonic empire and the creation of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, he became the Governor of Brabant and the "grand chambellan" of King Willem I. Retired he lived by Liege. He died in Argenteau on January 25, 1869.
Sold
estimated
25.000—35.000 €
Price realized
42.200 €