Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Nov 11, 2012

LOT 289

DEVERBERIE ?PENDULE AU SAUVAGE? Jnt. F. et Deverberie & C.nie, Rue Des Fosses Du Temple, No. 47 à Paris. Made circa 1815. Fine and very rare, 8-day going, Directoire gilt and patinated bronze ?Pendule Au Sauvage? table clock with hour and halfhour striking.

C. Bronze standing fi gure of a boy with black patinated upper body and legs, gilt bronze loincloth, a quiver of arrows on his back and wearing two beaded necklaces and arm bracelets, enameled eyes, his arms raised supporting the clock housed in a gilt-brass drum with beaded bezel, circular base set with chased gilt-bronze swags from satyr masks, beaded border, raised on hairy paw feet. D. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track. Gilt brass Directoire hands. M. 90 mm., circular brass plates, spring barrels for both trains, anchor escapement with silk suspension, countwheel striking the hours and half-hours on a bell. Dial signed. Dim. 45 x 19 cm.