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拍品专文
Joseph de Saint-Germain, maître in 1750.
This beautiful mantel clock with musical movement belongs to a group that is often attributed to the collaboration between the fondeur-ciseleur, Jean-Joseph de Saint-Germain, with his father, the ébéniste Joseph de Saint-Germain and of which several stamped examples survive. The offered lot is indeed stamped by the father, Joseph, but lacks the stamp of the son, but can all the same be attributed to him.
JEAN-JOSEPH DE SAINT-GERMAIN
Elected as a maître fondeur en terre et en sable on 15 July 1748, Saint-Germain (1719 - 1791) enjoyed the privilege of an ouvrier libre - enabling him to act both as an ébéniste and bronzier. He frequently supplied cases cast with animal forms and allegorical figures to the leading clockmakers of Paris, including the le Roy workshops, Etienne Lenoir and Jean-Philippe Gosselin. The quality of chasing and modelling in Saint-Germain's animal and foliate decorated cases also suggests close study of the natural world. (J.-D. Augarde, "Jean-Joseph de Saint-Germain: Bronzier (1719 - 1791)", L'Estampille/l'Objet d'Art, December, 1996, pp. 63 - 82).
JOSEPH DE SAINT-GERMAIN
Joseph was the father of Jean-Joseph and himself the son of a menusier. He became maître in 1750 and was specialised in the production of bases for mantel clocks and the backings for cartel clocks and barometers. Father and son shared the same atelier between 1750 and 1755 which promoted the exchange of mounts and coffers during that period.
MICHEL STOLLENWERK
Michel Stollenwerk (d.1768), born in Germany, received his maîtrise in Paris in 1746. By his contemporaries he was considered an artist of exceptional mechanical talent which a statement of 1776 testifies:
'As for instruments with tunes, or carillons..., those of Stollenwerk enjoy the highest reputation' and 'the carillons of Stollenwerk which have been transported to China, to the Grand Mogul, to Turkey, and to the Jurons, have enchanted the sovereigns of these vast countries'
For the cabinet-work he regularly collaborated with J.P. Latz and for the bronze cases with R. Osmond, Morlay and E. Roy, and of course Jean-Joseph de Saint-Germain.
COMPARABLE WORKS
A clock of identical shape with movement signed by Dauthiau is illustrated in (P. Kjellberg, Encyclopédie de La Pendule Française, Paris, 1997, pp. 118 - 119), while another with movement by Julien Le Roy is in the Dansk Folksmuseum in Aarhus, Denmark.
This beautiful mantel clock with musical movement belongs to a group that is often attributed to the collaboration between the fondeur-ciseleur, Jean-Joseph de Saint-Germain, with his father, the ébéniste Joseph de Saint-Germain and of which several stamped examples survive. The offered lot is indeed stamped by the father, Joseph, but lacks the stamp of the son, but can all the same be attributed to him.
JEAN-JOSEPH DE SAINT-GERMAIN
Elected as a maître fondeur en terre et en sable on 15 July 1748, Saint-Germain (1719 - 1791) enjoyed the privilege of an ouvrier libre - enabling him to act both as an ébéniste and bronzier. He frequently supplied cases cast with animal forms and allegorical figures to the leading clockmakers of Paris, including the le Roy workshops, Etienne Lenoir and Jean-Philippe Gosselin. The quality of chasing and modelling in Saint-Germain's animal and foliate decorated cases also suggests close study of the natural world. (J.-D. Augarde, "Jean-Joseph de Saint-Germain: Bronzier (1719 - 1791)", L'Estampille/l'Objet d'Art, December, 1996, pp. 63 - 82).
JOSEPH DE SAINT-GERMAIN
Joseph was the father of Jean-Joseph and himself the son of a menusier. He became maître in 1750 and was specialised in the production of bases for mantel clocks and the backings for cartel clocks and barometers. Father and son shared the same atelier between 1750 and 1755 which promoted the exchange of mounts and coffers during that period.
MICHEL STOLLENWERK
Michel Stollenwerk (d.1768), born in Germany, received his maîtrise in Paris in 1746. By his contemporaries he was considered an artist of exceptional mechanical talent which a statement of 1776 testifies:
'As for instruments with tunes, or carillons..., those of Stollenwerk enjoy the highest reputation' and 'the carillons of Stollenwerk which have been transported to China, to the Grand Mogul, to Turkey, and to the Jurons, have enchanted the sovereigns of these vast countries'
For the cabinet-work he regularly collaborated with J.P. Latz and for the bronze cases with R. Osmond, Morlay and E. Roy, and of course Jean-Joseph de Saint-Germain.
COMPARABLE WORKS
A clock of identical shape with movement signed by Dauthiau is illustrated in (P. Kjellberg, Encyclopédie de La Pendule Française, Paris, 1997, pp. 118 - 119), while another with movement by Julien Le Roy is in the Dansk Folksmuseum in Aarhus, Denmark.