Mantel clock (horloge de cheminée)
Jean-Joseph de Saint Germain|Charles Leroy
ca. 1745 · Gilded and chased bronze; white enamel · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
The asymmetrical scrolling base and the use of exotic figures places this clock in the realm of the chinoiserie, extremely fashionable in mid-eighteenth-century France. Jean Joseph de Saint-Germain, one of the most admired bronziers at the time, created and signed a number of gilt-bronze clock cases of this model but with variations. A member of the successful Le Roy dynasty of horlogiers, Charles Le Roy made a number of movements for cases by Saint Germain.
- Artist
- Jean-Joseph de Saint Germain|Charles Leroy
- Date
- ca. 1745
- Medium
- Gilded and chased bronze; white enamel
- Culture
- French
- Department
- European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
- Credit line
- Bequest of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2019
