Pendule, genannt „aux Maréchaux“
Height: 52 cm.
Width: 61 cm.
Depth: 14 cm.
Dial signed "Drouot à Paris".

On pressed spherical feet the standing marble base with chased Empire ornaments and tondi, on it the burnished figure as an allegory of literature and lektura. Between them an ormolu relief with two putti in a landscape. White enamelled dial with Roman hours and staff indices for minutes and blue calendar indications. Two keys available. Sawn gilded hands for hours and minutes and a blued calendar hand. Back glazed bezel with strike on bell. One pendulum present. According to the fact that many marshals received such a clock as a gift from Napoleon, this pendulum form is called "aux Maréchaux". The model was made by Daguerre, probably around 1785, by the bronzier François Rémond (c. 1747-1812). The figures were originally designed by Louis-Simon Boizot (1743-1809).
Literature:
Pierre Verlet, Les bronzes dorés français du XVIIIe siècle, Paris 1987, p. 322.
Pierre Kjellberg, Encyclopédie de la pendule française du Moyen Age au XXe Siecle, 2005, p. 295.

Note:
comparisons: A similar clock, also with a seated eagle and burnished figures on the sides, is in the collection of Prince Victor Napoleon (auction Osenat Paris 23 March 2013).
Other examples of such a clock are on display at the Palais de l'Élysée at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Château de Versailles, as well as at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and the Hermitage in Saint Petersburg. (1221155) (1) (13)


Pendulum clock, also known as "aux Maréchaux"
Height: 52 cm.
Width: 61 cm.
Depth: 14 cm.
Signed "Drouot à Paris".

Literature:
P. Verlet, Les bronzes dorés français du XVIIIe siècle, Paris 1987, p. 322.
P. Kjellberg, Encyclopédie de la pendule française du Moyen Age au XXe Siecle, 2005, p. 295.

notes:
Comparisons: a similar clock, also surmounted by an eagle and burnished figures seated on either side is held at the collection of Prince Victor Napoleon (Auction Osenat Paris 23 March 2013). A further such pendulum clock was held in the art trade in Paris but with gilt instead of burnished figures. Further examples of such clocks can be found at the Palais de l'Élysée in the Foreign Office of the Château de Versailles, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London as well as The State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg.