Important Christmas Fine Art Auction: Haute Epoque, Jewels and Colonial Treasures
Lote 483:
Table clock France 18th century Louis XVI H.1780 Nicolas-Alexandre Folin Clocks – Tabletop Manual Winding Black and white marble table clock ‘pendule portique’, late 18th century, vintage Louis XVI; enamel dial with Arabic numerals, signed ‘Folin l’Ainé à Paris’, the mechanism with an anchor escapement and a pendulum suspended from rope, the sound mechanism with counting wheel, ringing once on the half hour and the whole hour on a silver amalgamated bell. 53x37x15 cm. Unlike many artisans, Nicolas-Alexandre Folin was the rare individual who managed to prosper during the turbulent French Revolution. Although he was only accepted into the guild as a master in 1789, the year the revolution began, Folin had been active as a watchmaker for many years before. Provenance: The Antoon Gaemers Collection: Four Generations of ChronometryAntoon Gaemers was a connoisseur of chronometry and the last of four generations of watchmakers. He was well known among colleagues and collectors and was a passionate defender of everything that had to do with the phenomenon of time. Demonstrable in the last two photographs, the same watch that occupies our place appears.
