AN UNUSUAL STRIKING SILVERED CARRIAGE CLOCK in the neo-Renaissance taste, the case cast with interlaced strap-work angles, the top with unusual handle of two addorsed dragons, the sides with the seasons depicted by renaissance figures within roundels, the borders engraved with the relevant months in Gothic script, the reverse with a scene of the Admonition and engraved vigilate netcitis diem neque horam, the small rectangular door with strap-work hinges and grotesque-head handle, the dial with Gothic chapters and pierced central roundel of intertwining winged animals, the Annunciation depicted below and engraved Angelus Domini Nuntiavit Quarae, the movement with uncut bimetallic balance to silvered lever platform, strike/repeat on gong on backplate with dual train winding handle, with original purpose-made brown leather travelling case, the base with retail label for Leroy & Fils, circa 1885-90

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AN UNUSUAL STRIKING SILVERED CARRIAGE CLOCK in the neo-Renaissance taste, the case cast with interlaced strap-work angles, the top with unusual handle of two addorsed dragons, the sides with the seasons depicted by renaissance figures within roundels, the borders engraved with the relevant months in Gothic script, the reverse with a scene of the Admonition and engraved vigilate netcitis diem neque horam, the small rectangular door with strap-work hinges and grotesque-head handle, the dial with Gothic chapters and pierced central roundel of intertwining winged animals, the Annunciation depicted below and engraved Angelus Domini Nuntiavit Quarae, the movement with uncut bimetallic balance to silvered lever platform, strike/repeat on gong on backplate with dual train winding handle, with original purpose-made brown leather travelling case, the base with retail label for Leroy & Fils, circa 1885-90
6¾in.( 17.2cm.) high over handle
Attributed to Falize Frères

出版

J. Fanelli, C. Terwilliger,A Century of Fine French Carriage Clocks, New York, 1987, pp. 90-91
A. Kenneth Snowman, The Master Jewelers, London, 1990, pp. 61-72
Lucien Falize, L' Orfevreue et la Bijouterie au Champs de Mars, Gazette des Beaux Arts, Paris, 1878
Katherine Purcell, Catering for every taste, Apollo, February, 1991

拍品专文

The Falize family jewellery business began with Alexis Falize, 1811-1898. His prodigious talent for drawing precious ornaments enabled him to start the business in 1838 in Palais Royale. He was chiefly notable for reviving the cloisonné enamel technique in the Japanese taste and producing ambitious neo-renaissance pieces. His son Lucien took over in 1878 and expanded the business in partnership with Germain Bapst in 1880. In 1878, in the Exposition Universelle he exhibited the first example of this clock, it was given the name Angelus and described in the Gazette des Beaux-arts as une charmante petite horloge D'ivoire, monté en or et argent, dans le style du XIIIe siècle et le beau pendant de col inspiré des jolies compositions d'Adrien Collaert. The business was continued by Les Frères Falize, Constant and Charles-Frédéric and it was almost certainly they that reproduced the Angelus clock in very limited numbers. They continued to expand the business and executed important commissions including the crown jewels for King Peter I of Serbia, a crown for the Roumanian Queen Marie in 1922 and a distaff for King Carol II in 1930

We are grateful for the assistance of Katherine Purcell in the preparation of these catalogue notes