A 1785-90 French ormolu-mounted Sèvres pink porcelain lyre clock, the dial signed Kinable a Paris and Dubuisson. The circular dial decorated with oval enamelled placques depicting the twelve zodiac signs and inscribed with the names of months and days. Two-trains movement striking the hours and half (cm 59x28) (defects)   NOTES   Different exemplars of this very important model survive both in blue and pink finish. Two almost identical exemplars (one bought in 1828 from King George IV) are placed in the British Royal Collection; another one, formerly housed in Versailles, is now at the Louvre. Another one is at the Victoria and Albert Museum.   The clockmaker Dieudonné kinable was very well-known for this kind of clocks and for the "skeleton" clocks. It is known that he acquired the case components in Sèvres and he employed the best enamellers of the time to decorate the clock dials. The most important enamellers of that time were Joseph Coteau (1740-1801) and Etienne Gobin, also known as Duboisson (1731-after 1815).   Bibliography:   Pierre Kjellberg, 'Encyclopédie de la Pendule Française du Moyen Age au XXe Siècle'97, p. 230. Tardy, La pendule Française. Des origines a nos jours 2me Partie. 1969, p. 281-282

Estimate € 15,000 - 20,000

Sold € 55,000