A clock with vestals in carved white marble... - Lot 151 - Ader

Lot 151
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A clock with vestals in carved white marble... - Lot 151 - Ader
A clock with vestals in carved white marble and gilded bronze, the antique women support a dial with Arabic numerals surrounded by garlands of foliage and flowers in gilded bronze and surmounted by a Warrior Love, the base with a children's play plate. The dial is signed by the watchmaker Furet in Paris and the enameller Joseph Coteau. Louis XVI period H: 44 cm, W: 40 cm, D: 12 cm. The signature of the famous enameller Joseph Coteau (1740-1801), a member of the Académie de Saint Luc, who left Geneva in 1766 to settle in Paris, is rarely found. Coteau was notably involved in the manufacture of the toilet service offered by Marie-Antoinette and Louis XVI to the Grand Duchess Maria Feodorovna. The white marble figures are to be compared with the production of the Broche brothers, Joseph and Jean-Baptiste Ignace, who were originally from Belfort and worked at the Sèvres porcelain factory under the direction of Etienne Maurice Falconet. The Cognacq-Jay museum in Paris preserves a certain number of their works (see Falconet à Sèvres ou l'art de plaire 1757-1766, cat. exp., Musée national de la Céramique, Sèvres, 2001, pp. 43-45 and 97).
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