Description: An Important and Palatial French Louis XV Style 19th Century Gilt-Bronze and White Marble Mantel Clock Attributed to Alfred-Emmanuel-Louis Beurdeley, the casting and gilding by Jules Graux, Paris, The Movement by Japy Freres & Cie. The large and impressive marble and two-tone finely chased gilt-bronze and white marble body, with it's original superb quality mercury satin-gilt and burnished gilt (ciselé et doré au mat), surmounted by two reclining cherubs amongst clouds, one holding a triumphant wreath the other a floral bouquet, flanked to each side by floral swags and attributes of Love with kissing doves, on a shaped base with a further cloud-borne cherub, above a scrolling foliate frieze and garlands of flowers, with a bow, arrows, a trumpet on toupie feet. The beautifully decorated circular white enamel dial with wreaths of flowers and gold fleur de liz' jewels, with arabic numerals, signed Jules Graux, A Paris. The bell striking movement with outside count wheel, pin wheel escapement mounted on the backplate with beat adjustment on the crutch, stamped: "Japy Frers. & Cie. Exposition 1855 - Grande Med D' Honneur". The ormolu stamped "JG". Circa: Paris, 1860's. Note: Mint Condition. The Jules Graux's Foundry was based at 8 rue du Parc-Royal from 1860, they exhibited at the last national exhibition in Paris in 1849 and again Paris in 1855. At the London exhibition of 1862 their entry was described as, "bronzes d'ameublement, cheminée et garniture de cheminée, lustres, vases, statues, groupes, objets de service de table, gueridon de malachite." They are recorded as exporting 35% of their production and as having made bronzes for the Hotel de la Commission. They also contributed to the Paris exhibition of 1867. By 1870 his sons M Graux-Marly took over the business from their father and, from then on, their works were stamped GRAUX-MARLY or GRAUX-MARLY FRÈRES. The foundry in renown for producing high-quality bronze castings, chasing and gilding, including clocks, candelabra, statuettes and other fine decorative works of art. Jules Graux - Graux-Marly Fondeurs also cast bronzes for many of the most renowned sculptors of the day, including but not limited to Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (French, 1827-1875), James Pradier - born Jean-Jacques Pradier (Swiss/French, 1790-1852), Emmanuel Frémiet (French, 1824-1910), Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse (French, 1824-1887), Alfred Emmanuel Louis Beurdeley (French, 1847-1919) as well as reproducing important and popular antique, from the Renaissance and later models. Related Literature: P. Kjellberg, Les Bronzes du XIX Siecle, Les Editions de l'Amateur, Paris, page 660. Japy Freres & Cie. was founded by Frederic Japy of Beaucount, born in 1749, and first made movements for the clock industry at his factory in 1777, becoming the largest and most commercially important clock making concern in France. Japy Freres & Cie. supplied movements for some of France's greatest sculptures like Léon Messagé, Alfred-Emmanuel-Louis Beurdeley, Joseph-Emmanuel Zwiener and François Linke. 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. Please click here to view another similar clock currently available Height: 26 1/2 inches (67.3 cm) Width: 27 1/2 inches (69.9 cm) Depth: 10 1/2 inches (26.7 cm) Ref.: A2047
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