A Very Fine and Important Palatial Louis XV Style 19th Century Gilt-Bronze White Marble Mantel Clock Attributed to Alfred-Emmanuel-Louis Beurdeley, Retailed by Jules Graux, Paris, The Movement by Japy Freres & Cie. Circa: Paris, 1880.

Japy Freres & Cie. was founded by Frederic Japy of Beaucount, born in 1749, and first made movements for the clock industry at his factory in 1777, becoming the largest and most commercially important clock making concern in France. Japy Freres & Cie. supplied movements for some of France's greatest sculptures like Léon Messagé, Alfred-Emmanuel-Louis Beurdeley, Joseph-Emmanuel Zwiener and François Linke.

Beurdeley, Alfred Emmanuel Louis (French, 1847-1919): Work at first with his father in Paris and eventually succeeded him. He kept the shop at rue Louis-Le-Grand and had worked at Nos. 20 ˆ 24 rue Dautancourt. The business continued in its traditional style with very few variations, until it was closed in 1895 and the remaining contents of the company were sold at the Galerie Geroges Petit. Beurdeley exhibited at the 1878 Exhibition

LITERATURE AND REFERENCES:
Tardy, The Most Beautiful French Clocks, Paris, 1994, pp. 162-163 for illustrations of similar eighteenth century dial know as à la dauphine by Cotteau and Dubuisson. Ottomeyer/Proschel, Vergoldete Bronzen I, Munich, 1986.

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Height: 26 1/2 inches (67.3 cm)
Width: 27 1/2 inches (69.9 cm)
Depth: 10 1/2 inches (26.7 cm)