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A NAPOLEON III ORMOLU WALL CLOCK AND MATCHING BAROMETER, in the Louis XVI style, each with a shaped case and glazed circular white enamel dial signed VTOR Paillard A Paris, with a beaded bezel surmounted by a ribbon-tied oval panel cast with two cherubs, with vines, grapes and fruiting garlands to each side, the lower part with a shaped panel depicting in the clock, a fox and it's quarry and a hunting dog and game in the barometer, both stamped V.P beneath a crown, the rectangular panel below raised with a female mask supporting a foliate-filled vase and fruit, the terminal cast with acanthus, the clock with twin-train movement No. 1312 with deadbeat escapement, striking on a bell, the barometer with aneroid mechanism

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A NAPOLEON III ORMOLU WALL CLOCK AND MATCHING BAROMETER, in the Louis XVI style, each with a shaped case and glazed circular white enamel dial signed VTOR Paillard A Paris, with a beaded bezel surmounted by a ribbon-tied oval panel cast with two cherubs, with vines, grapes and fruiting garlands to each side, the lower part with a shaped panel depicting in the clock, a fox and it's quarry and a hunting dog and game in the barometer, both stamped V.P beneath a crown, the rectangular panel below raised with a female mask supporting a foliate-filled vase and fruit, the terminal cast with acanthus, the clock with twin-train movement No. 1312 with deadbeat escapement, striking on a bell, the barometer with aneroid mechanism
40½in. (103cm.) high; 11in. (28cm.) wide
the dials; 6in. (15cm.) diam. (2)

拍品专文

The original model of this, mounted with Sèvres panels and a thermometer below, is now in the Musée du Louvre, Paris. It belongs to a group of barometers, of two types, the first with an additional Sèvers panel and thermometer attached below, and secondly a barometer which has no thermomter, of which there is an example at Waddesdon.

The Louvre model is discussed and illustrated in Pierre Verlet's Les Bronzes Dorés Français du XVIII siécle, 1987, p.37. pl. 27., who also mentions, that Madame du Barry purchased a clock and barometer of this model in 1769.

Tardy's Dictionnaire des Horlogers Français, Paris, 1972, records Victor Paillard as working at 105, Bd Beaumarchais between 1860-1870. He is also listed as as President of section VIII at the International Exhibition, London in 1862.