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Lot 79
Bedeutende und in höchster Qualität gefertigte Empire-Kaminuhr mitfigürlicher Gestaltung von Claude Galle (1759 - 1815)56 x 48,5 x 17,2 cm.Paris, um 1810.Funktionen:Das Werk mit runden Messingplatinen, durch vier Pfeiler verbunden. Ankerwerk mit Pendel an Fadenaufhängung. Vierzehntagegehwerk. Geschwärzte Breguet-Zeiger für Stunden und Minuten. Schlossscheibenschlagwerk für Halbstunden- und Stundenschlag auf versilberte Glocke.Gehäuse:Bronze, vergoldet und braun patiniert, grüner Marmor. Der Aufbau betont vorrangig die skulpturale, bildkünstlerisch hervorragende Leistung als klassizistische Plastik, als das in der Gesamterscheinung untergeordnete Uhrwerk. Die Betonung der beiden Farbwirkungen Braun und Gold verleiht gediegene Eleganz. Der grünfarbene getreppte Sockel in Vert de Mer-Marmor erscheint dabei zurückhaltend, durch die vergoldeten Rundfüße jedoch mit dem Figurenwerk verklammert. Gezeigt ist eine schwarz patinierte Récamière, reich mit vergoldeten Applikationen besetzt, auf der eine bacchantische Mänade auf einem Kissen liegt. Der Körper nur mit einem um die Hüften gelegten Tuch bekleidet. Die Körperhaltung zeigt sie räkelnd, mit hochgenommenen Armen, wobei sie eine große Traube mit Blättern über dem Gesicht hält. Ihr Blick ist verschleiert, nahezu weintrunken wiedergegeben. Zu ihren Füßen ein Tamburin mit Tyrsosstab zwischen zwei Weinkannen am Fußende des Bettes. Dem antiken Thema entsprechend beziehen sich auch die Applikationen an der Vorderseite der Liege auf das Bacchusthema: zwei Panther, die sich an Trauben in einem Korb laben. Es sind die Attributtiere des Weingottes Bacchus, wurde er doch der Legende gemäß von einer Pantherin aufgezogen. Seitlich Panflöten, darunter erscheinen die Masken des gehörnten Pan an den Bocksfüßen der Kline. Ein hochsteigender Bock sowie ein Widderkopf-Rhyton an der Lehne ergänzen das Bildprogramm. Das Uhrwerk im Zentrum unterhalb der Récamière eingefügt. Zifferblatt:Das weiße Emailzifferblatt zeigt römische Stunden und arabische Viertelstunden, über der VI bezeichnet „Le Roy“.Das Thema der figürlichen Darstellung lässt sich auf reiche antike Sagenstoffe zurückführen, die von dem römischen Dichter Ovid überliefert wurden. Dabei spielt die vorgeschichtliche Erfindung der Weinherstellung eine übergeordnete Rolle, etwa die Legenden von Bacchus und Erigone, der Tochter des Ikarios. Hier wird erzählt, Bacchus hätte die Herstellung des Weines verraten, ohne die Folgen der Betrunkenheit zu erwähnen, woraufhin Ikarios getötet wurde. Aber auch ohne diese Vorgeschichte fand das Motiv der trunkenen Mänade im Gefolge des Bacchus vielfach Anregung zu künstlerischer Gestaltung. Und dies auch in der Plastik, in Zusammenhang mit Uhrengehäusen. So hat Clodion ebenfalls eine Bacchusnymphe in Marmor auf einer Liege gestaltet, für eine Musikuhr, die in die Sammlung von Prinz Napoleon in Brüssel kam.Als ein weiteres Vergleichsbeispiel kann eine ähnliche Kaminuhr zitiert werden, gefertigt von Courvoisier & Compagnie, La Chaux-de-Fonds, mit der ebenfalls vergoldeten Bronze von Thomire, Paris (Inv.Nr. IV-693). Die Zuweisung an Thomire basiert auf einem Entwurf im Stockholm National Museum of Fine Arts.Letztlich jedoch verrät uns ein Katalog des Hotel Drouot, Paris (Salle M. Etienne Ader, Lot 121), vom 18. Juni 1848, mit Abb. den Bronzier Claude Galle (1759-1815).Der Uhrmacher unterhielt sein Atelier laut seiner Briefadresse in der Rue Vobert 1 sowie Rue Vivienne 9, wurde 1786 Meister, dann Lieferant für die Ausstattung der Schlösser Fontainebleau, Les Tuileries, Compiégne und Rambouillet. Auch außerhalb Frankreichs belieferte er höchstrangige Auftraggeber, wie etwa das Savoy-Schloss Stupinigi bei Turin oder den Quirinal in Rom. Unter Napoleon I galt er als einer der bedeutendsten Bronzehersteller Frankreichs. Als Hersteller und Distributeur unterhielt er im Jahre 1811 nahezu 400 Mitarbeiter, somit eines der größten Unternehmen. 1806 wurde er anlässlich einer Kunstindustrieausstellung mit einer Medaille ausgezeichnet; für eine figürlich gestaltete Uhr, die sich heute im Museum des Château Malmaison befindet.Nicht allein der Entwurf, sondern auch die hervorragende Fertigung macht dieses Objekt zu einem der markantesten Beispiele des Pariser Empire und ist ohne Zweifel als bedeutend museal zu bezeichnen. Tadelloser Zustand. Das Pendel sowie ein Schlüssel vorhanden.Nicht auf Funktionsfähigkeit geprüft.Literatur:Vgl. Michael Edward Shapiro, Monsieur Galle, Bronzier et Doreur, in: The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal, Bd. 6/7, 1978/1979, S. 57-74.Vgl. Louna Zek, Bronzes d‘ameublement et meubles français achetés par Paul I-er pour le Château Saint Michel de Saint Petersbourg 1798/99, in: Bulletin de la Société de l'Histoire de l'Art Français, 1994.Vgl. Jean Dominique Augarde, Une nouvelle vision du bronze et des bronziers sous le Directoire et l‘Empire, in: L'Estampille - L'Objet 'art, Januar 2005, Nr. 298, S. 62-85. (1350596) (1) (10)Important empire style mantel clock of the highest quality with figural décor by Claude Galle (1759 – 1815)56 x 48.5 x 17.2 cm.Paris, ca. 1810.Functions:The clockwork with round brass plates, connected by four pillars. Lever work with pendulum on silk suspension. Fourteen-day striker. Blackened Breguet hands for hours and minutes. Count wheel striking mechanism for half-hour and hour strike on silver-plated bell.Case: Bronze; gilt and with brown patina; green marble. The design primarily emphasizes the sculptural, an artistically outstanding achievement as a classicist sculpture, while the clockwork is subordinate in the overall appearance. The emphasis on the two-colour effects of brown and gold give an appearance of dignified elegance. The design of the green-coloured stepped base in Vert-de-mer marble seems restrained but is connected to the figurative work by means of round gilt feet. The figurative design features a bacchanalian maenad reclining on a cushion on a black patinated recamier, richly decorated with gilt applications. She is only dressed in a cloth draped around her waist. She is stretching out with her raised arms holding a large bunch of grapes with leaves above her face. Her gaze is hooded, appearing almost intoxicated. A tambourine with a thyrsus between two wine jugs is positioned at the foot of the recamier by her feet. In accordance with this ancient subject, the applications on the front of the recamier also refer to the Bacchus theme: two panthers are feasting on grapes in a basket. They are the attribute animals of the wine god Bacchus, who, according to legend, was raised by a panther. Panpipes are shown on the sides, below the masks of the horned Pan appear on the goat feet of the recamier. The backrest is decorated with a rearing goat and a ram's head rhyton. The clockwork is inserted at the centre below the recamier.Dial:The white enamel dial shows Roman hours and Arabic quarter hours, “Le Roy” inscribed above number VI.The subject of the figurative design can be traced back to rich ancient legends that were handed down by the Roman poet Ovid. The prehistoric invention of wine production plays a major role here, such as the legends of Bacchus and Erigone, the daughter of Icarius. It recounts that Bacchus betrayed the secrets of wine production without mentioning the consequences of drunkenness, whereupon Icarius was killed. But even without this background, the motif of the drunken maenad in the entourage of Bacchus often gave inspiration to artistic expression. And this was also the case for figurative work in combination with clock cases. Clodion also designed a nymph of Bacchus on a couch in marble for a musical clock that came into the collection of Prince Napoleon in Brussels. A similar ma...
Lot 335A
A small cameo glass bowl in the style of Galle decorated in relief with trailing flowers to a cream and peach ground, with raised signature, 6cm highCONDITION REPORTS & PAYMENT DETAILSIMPORTANT* Descriptions do not include condition reports. Please contact us to if you require further information or images.* Please consider shipping costs before bidding as this may affect your decision to bid* Please familiarise yourself with our payment methods. Our preferred method of payment is by bank transfer. We do not take cash or card payments.
Lot 37
MAJOR-GENERAL FREDERICK STAFFORD HEWETT (1826-1880)ORIENTAL HOTEL CEYLONtitled and dated Room No 8 / Oriental Hotel / Galle: Ceylon / Mar 3 60 lower rightwatercolourimage: 19.5 x 12.5cm; 7 ¾ x 5inframed: 36 x 28.5cm; 14 x 11 1/4inStafford Hewett, a Major-General in the British Army in India serving in the Bombay Presidency, was an inveterate chronicler of local Indian life and culture on his travels throughout the continent. His plentiful sketches and watercolours combine a delightful humour with a pleasing lightness of touch and show a particular sensitivity towards the natural world. His subject matter ranged from extraordinarily precise topographical accuracy, consistent with recording military positions, to the purely imaginary and fantastic which offer a rye commentary on life around him. The present work together with the previous lot capture with delightful delicacey views from his hotel window whilst staying in Bombay and Ceylon.
Lot 357
A large library of art and design reference books and catalogues, approximately 90 books including; Alastair Duncan Art Deco Complete, Edward Horswell, Rembrandt Bugatti - Life in Sculpture, Sladmore Gallery, Jacob Epstein Sculpture and Drawings, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Van Cleef & Arpels, Edition Paris-Musees, The Machine Age in America 1918-1941, F Borsi Victor Horta, Elizabeth Aslin EW Godwin, Jane Kallir Viennese Design and the Wiener Werkstatte, Ruhlmann, George Nakashima, Mervyn Levy Liberty Style, Malcolm Haslam In the Nouveau Style, Alistair Duncan Glass by Galle, Seymour Chwast The Left-Handed Designer, Edward Burne-Jones Victorian Artist and Dreamer and Louis Comfort Tiffany Couleurs et Lumiere, and seventy-six auction catalogues from Christies, Sotheby's, and Quittenbaum,(a lot)
Lot 859
GALLE EMILE: (1846-1904) French artist and designer who worked in glass, considered one of the major innovators in the French Art Nouveau movement. An excellent Autograph Manuscript Signed, Emile Galle (in the third person to the title page and also within the text), twenty pages (including the title page), 4to (and a few smaller), n.p. (Nancy), n.d. (1884), in French. The manuscript, largely penned to the versos of Galle's personal printed stationery, is the artist's working draft (containing numerous corrections) of his report to the jury of the Central Union of the Decorative Arts VIII Exposition on the production and manufacture of his glass, including various specimens, and featuring details of the technical procedures of decoration and the diverse new applications derived from it, in particular new glass colouration including double and triple marbled glass, precious stone imitations, the use of air bubbles, extension of the palette of opaque enamels on glass, the use of transparent and translucent enamels on glass (other than cobalt oxide enamel), rare and strange decorations and new engraving procedures etc., in part, 'The exhibitor presents this year some tones coloured from the block (chrome oxide, iron oxide and diverse combinations of iron oxide, cobalt, manganese); some free imitations of precious stones, transparent, translucent or marbled with opaque veins. These colourations are obtained by introduction of diverse oxides and metallic salts in the glass, of opal glasses, and glasses coloured with gold or copper oxide….He still presents glasses with the introduction of gold sheets, platinum, finally some doublets and triplets with marbled sheet. Some specimens offer absolutely new effects, unprecedented use of which, neither modern or antique, offer any example…..the exhibitor asks the jury to examine the following samples…..Octopus light cigar case….cylindrical pot and tray…..basin with glass stopper, sapphirine colour, or blue quartz colour (composition based on potash) with translucent enamels…..Emile Galle incidentally reminds that glass, coloured with a small quantity of cobalt oxide in a pretty sapphire tone, colour which was since vulgarised by some French and foreign glass manufacturers, was emitted by him in 1878…..(and)…..commercialised by him under the name Clair de Lune, it was produced successively in Germany under the name Mondschein and in England under that of Moonlight Glass. A sample of this shade can be seen in the Decorative Arts museum……Marbled glasses with purple and bluish colours disclose the presence of gold. These marbling are yellowish when seen by reflection and red or pink by refraction…..These colours, interesting from the point of view of techniques, are not less interesting as regards decoration for the resources they offer the artist. Unfortunately, in considering the industrial use only, this procedure does not seem very practical, its effect being too variable…..it still requires some spendings of imagination to create interesting subjects out of their strange shapes…..The exhibitor also presents some tinted glasses containing gold and platinum sheets introduced in the glass in order to serve as foreground to enamels…..all the exhibitors decorations are handmade……The vivid desire to create….enamels on glass, a production with a really modern and French character, has led the exhibitor to research the colours that neither the Damas or Venise enamellers, nor the German painters have used in their productions, some reds and blues for example, some blacks, yellows and greens, some purples, pinks and violets, and most of all half tones, fine and broken shades, greys, flesh and ivory tones. Their judicious use, without dashing the decoration of the glass, can add to it a certain piquant…..diverse appropriateness between the decoration and the objects' destination had led Galle to research other translucent enamels than the old and magnificent blue derived from cobalt. Some objects having to represent the decorations by refraction as well as by reflection, it became necessary to enlarge the enamel palette in a sense contrary to opacity…..Emile Galle pays the greatest attention to the composition of the drawings intended to be executed in touret engraving. He never uses the fluor hydric acid engraving. It can be no use to him in the artistic effects he is searching for…..' Within the draft Galle details over eighty glass objects that he is presenting at the exposition including vases, scent bottles, bowls, tankards, goblets, cornets, a clock (made for the Queen of Italy), jugs, wine glasses etc. A manuscript of fascinating content and accompanied by a vintage unsigned 5 x 8.5 cabinet photograph, the albumen print by Otto Wegener of Paris depicting Galle in a head and shoulders pose and with the photographer's imprint to the lower mount. Some light overall age wear and a few creases and small tears (most noticeable to the left edge of the title page). G to VG, 2
Lot 1151
GALLE EMILE: (1846-1904) French Artist, famous for his works in glass and recognised as one of the leading figures in the French Art Nouveau movement. A.L., unsigned, on two sides of his personal printed oblong 12mo visiting card, n.p. (Nancy), n.d., evidently to a client, in French. Galle states that he will fulfill his promise [of completing a funeral urn for a mutual friend] for the following day, and confirms the inscription on the vase, 'Personne n'a un plus grand amour que de donner sa vie pour les amis. Saint Jean XV'. (from the Gospel of John, Chapter XV, Verse 13). A light stain to the verso only slightly affects a few words of text and with one very small hole, otherwise VG
Lot 756
19th century gilt metal portrait relief plaque depicting Frederick I of Wuttemburg, by Galle, trade label to reverse, in glazed gilt frame, 9cm diameter, raised on miniature easel, together with Grand Tour bronze portrait plaque of Caesar, also on a stand, bronzed medallion of Quuen Caroline and a WWI German medallion. Provenance: Removed from Portland Place, London, from the Estate of historian and academic Richard Thomas Shannon (1931-2022)
Lot 156
Attributed to Claude Galle (French, 1759-1815): A gilt bronze figural group of the Horatiiprobably early 19th century and originally a clock mount, the subject taken from the painting 'Oath of the Horatii' by Jacques Louis David (French, 1748-1825)the three classical young warriors each extending an arm before them, raised on Verde Antico marble rectangular base, 42.5cm high overallFootnotes:The offered lot appears to have originally been part of a figural clock surmount modelled by the celebrated bronze founder and gilder Claude Galle, circa 1800-1809. For a near identical complete clock which is part of the Royal Collections and is situated in the Throne Room of Buckingham Palace- see https://www.rct.uk/collection/2761/mantel-clockThis lot is subject to the following lot symbols: TPTP For auctions held in Scotland: Lots will be moved to an offsite storage location (Constantine, Constantine House, North Caldeen Road, Coatbridge ML5 4EF, Scotland, UK) and will only be available for collection from this location at the date stated in the catalogue. Please refer to the catalogue for further information.For all other auctions: Lots will be moved to an offsite storage location (Cadogan Tate, Auction House Services, 241 Acton Lane, London NW10 7NP, UK) and will only be available for collection from this location at the date stated in the catalogue. Please note transfer and storage charges will apply to any lots not collected after 14 calendar days from the auction date.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 256
Claude Galle (French, 1759-1846): A good early 19th century French gilt bronze and verde antico marble figural mantel clockthe dial signed Galle, Rue Vivienne a Paristhe case cast as a young lovestruck troubadour in Renaissance style dress seated on a stone fountain head with maskhead spout, a winged putto pulling the strings of his lyre, the base modelled with bull rushes and a poetic inscribed rustic stone tablet, the rectangular marble plinth with applied ribbon tied musical trophies, on stylised paw feet, the 4' signed enamel dial with Roman numerals and outer Arabic quarter hour track, the brass twin train movement with silk suspension and outside countwheel striking on a bell, with pendulum and two winders, 46.5cm high Footnotes:Claude Galle was one of the leading French bronziers of his day and he created numerous gilt bronzes for the Royal and subsequently Imperial household. Born at Villepreux near Versailles, he was apprenticed to the fondeur, Pierre Foy at rue du Four. In 1784 he married Foy's daughter and after the Foy's death, took over the workshop and built it into one of the finest of its kind, eventually employing about 400 craftsmen. In 1786 he became a maitre-fondeur and in the same year received the first of many commissions from the Garde-Meuble to furnish the royal palaces. Galle moved the business to Quai de la Monnaie (renamed Quai de l'Unit?) and from 1805 traded from 60 Rue Vivienne.A comparable clock with a very similar verde antico plinth base and paw feet depicting the three Horatti receiving their swords from Tatius is situated in the Throne Room of Buckingham Palace, see the Royal Collection - https://www.rct.uk/collection/2761/mantel-clockTwo other near identical clocks on comparable verde antico plinths are also in historic collections, one in the Residenz in Munich, Germany, the other in the Swedish Royal Collection.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: TPTP For auctions held in Scotland: Lots will be moved to an offsite storage location (Constantine, Constantine House, North Caldeen Road, Coatbridge ML5 4EF, Scotland, UK) and will only be available for collection from this location at the date stated in the catalogue. Please refer to the catalogue for further information.For all other auctions: Lots will be moved to an offsite storage location (Cadogan Tate, Auction House Services, 241 Acton Lane, London NW10 7NP, UK) and will only be available for collection from this location at the date stated in the catalogue. Please note transfer and storage charges will apply to any lots not collected after 14 calendar days from the auction date.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 744
AFTER ANDRE GALLE (FRENCH 1761-1844),GILT METAL PORTRAIT MEDAL DEPICTING EMPEROR ALEXANDER I OF RUSSIA,with inscription and mounted in bronzed frame, with paper label verso, 9cm diameterOverall decent condition with some discolouration to the gilt. Wear consistent with age. Some dents and bends to the bronze frame.
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