A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU AND MEISSEN PORCELAIN MANTEL CLOCK

THE PORCELAIN FIGURE MODELLED BY FRIEDRICH ELIAS MEYER

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A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU AND MEISSEN PORCELAIN MANTEL CLOCK
The porcelain figure modelled by Friedrich Elias Meyer
The circular enamelled dial signed 'Imbert L'Ainé, Paris' in a drum-shaped case mounted with soft-paste porcelain flowerheads and a tureen cresting, on a shaped platform and four spreading columns with Meissen porcelain pedestals framed by beaded loops surrounding a figure of the dancing shepherdess, the base chased with foliage, on milled feet, later bell, the porcelain mid-18th Century
23¾ in. (59 cm.) high

拍品专文

Jean-Gabriel Imbert L'ainé (d. 1795), maître in 1776.

Friedrich Elias Meyer (1723-85) was initially Court sculptor at Weimar. Replacing J.F. Eberlein in 1748 at Meissen as a modeller under J.J. Kändler, in 1761 he accepted an invitation from the financier J.E. Gotzkowsky to move to Berlin, where the latter had established a new porcelain factory. This was subsequently acquired by Friedrich the Great of Prussia in 1763 and was renamed the Royal factory.