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AN IMPORTANT REGENCE BOULLE CLOCK BY BERNARD I VAN RISENBURGH
Inlaid overall with strapwork panels of scrolling foliage and flowers the circular cabochon-enamelled dial with both Roman and Arabic chapters centered by foliate chasing, signed Rabby a Paris to both dial and move- ment, the foliate-trailed case with a central Apollo mask and domed can- opy surmounted by a seated Putto emblematic of Athena in armour flanked by female Caryatids to each side, the glazed door with a relief of Prudence seated in her chariot, on scrolled foliate feet with grotesque masks, the tapering pedestal base with an Anthemionstrapwork base band and waisted top with laurel-wreathed with espagnolette-masks to the an- gels issuing from acanthus foliage, above a strapwork band and a central fan with husktails, the rectangular tapering panel with winged maidens suspending a canopy over a cockerel and with two eagles suspending a canopy over Minerva, flanked by canted foliate-trailed angles and the sides with Apollo, Diana and Jupiter Masks with their relevant attributes, the spreading socle with acanthus angles and a fluted rim above the stepped and lambrequined plinth with foliate band, restorations, one mount in- cised BII and the seated Putto-Finial re-supported. France, circa 1715
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This clock and its pedestal represent the missing link between the first pieces produced by Bernard I van Risenburgh's workshop around 1695 and those, such as the bureau l'Electeur, dating after 1715. There are only two other documented bracket clocks of this model, one in premiere par- tie, was sold by Lt. Col. William Stirling of Keir, Sotheby's London, 12 July 1963, lot 134. The other was sold from the collection of Mrs. Elizabeth Parke Firestone, Christie's, New York, 22023 March 1991, lot 890. A sin- gle pedestal was sold anonymously in Paris, Palais d'Orsay, 21 February 1978, lot 74. All the pedestals are embellished with berainesque mar- quetry, the scrolling foliage, birds and animals under canopies, with urns and masks being recurring motifs. They can be found en partie on bureaux and tables from the earliest productions of the atelier. The marquetry of the upper section on all the pedestals is similar to that which occurs on the back door of a clock with movement by Thuret in the Wallace Collection. (F.J.BWatson, Catalogue, London 1956, F. 40.)
Height 113in/287cm) Width 27.5in/70cm) Depth 11.5in/29cm)
PROVENANCE The Viscounts Hampden Hampden House, Green Street, London until sold by the widow of the 3rd Viscount Hampden.
The Marquises of Linlithgow, Hopetoun House, South Queensferry, Scot- land thence by descent at Hopetoun. Alexander and Berendt, London
LITERATURE J.D.Augarde and J.N.Ronfort, Le Maitre du Bureau de L Eiecteur, l.'Esta m pi Ile/l'Objet d'Art, January 1991, p. 69, fig. 25 J.D. Augarde, Les Ouvriers du Temps, Antiquorum Editions, 1996, p. 48, fig. 29
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