3596
SOLD
Antique French Clock Garniture. Circa 1890.
Gilt brass 4-glass case with bevelled glasses on a mahogany top and base inset with porcelain plaques and with gilded beading.
The en-suite vases with the same decoration, both clock and vases on adjustable brass feet.
Porcelain plaques and vases signed Poitevin.
8-Day movement striking the hours and halves on a gong with mercury pendulum.
Gilt dial with Arabic numerals and blued steel hands.
Dimensions: Clock, 16.25 inches high, 9.5” wide, 5.5” deep. Vases, 13.5” high.
Ref 3596
See W. Neuwirth, ‘Porzellanmaler-Lexikon, 1840-1914’, Band II, p.163-4 for a listing of three painters with the surname Poitevin, here noted as working in Paris studios in the late nineteenth century. The popularity of porcelain during the nineteenth century led to a number of companies in and around Paris, creating exceptional porcelain. Often these pieces were of exhibition quality and scale and finely painted by the best studio painters of the day such as Poitevin
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