Description: France, circa 1810
After a design Jean-André Reiche (1752-1817), bronzes attributed to Claude Galle (1758
1815) depicting a governess and her pupil sitting at a table with an astrolabe, both sitting on fine Empire chairs, eleborately decorated with applied mounts, fine white enamel convex dial with hands, original hands included, black Roman numerals, signed Paris. With eight day going train, countwheel strike on full- and half hours on a single bell, timekeeping regulated with silk suspended pendulum.
H. 35.7 x W. 38.2 x D. 12.4 cm
Literature:
- H. Ottomeyer, P. Pr?schel, Vergoldete Bronzen, Die Bronzearbeiten des Sp?tbarock und Klassizismus, 2 Vol., München, Klinkhardt und Biermann, 1986, p. 375.
- Kjellberg Pierre, Encyclopedie de la Pendule Francaise, Du Moyen Age Au XXe Siecle, Paris, Les Editions De L'Amateur, Paris, 1997, p. 398.
- Elke Niehüser, Die franz?sische Bronzeuhr: eine Typologie der figürlichen Darstellungen von G?ttern, Helden, edlen Wilden, München, Callwey, 1997,