Description:

A Very Fine and Important Palatial Louis XV Style 19th/20th Century Figural Gilt-Bronze White Marble Mantel Clock with Figures of Cherubs, the enamel dial with Arabic numerals and foliate pierced gilt hands. Attributed to Alfred-Emmanuel-Louis Beurdeley, The Movement by Samuel Marti who is known to have worked with Beurdeley. All original mercury gilt.           Circa: Paris, 1900.

Height: 24 inches (61 cm)
Width: 27 inches (68.6 cm)
Depth: 11 inches (28 cm)

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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Ref.: A1481