A French 19th century Louis XVI st. Biscuit de Sèvres and ormolu clock signed Guyon à Lyon
List: $6,500.00
An elegant French 19th century Louis XVI st. Biscuit de Sèvres and ormolu clock signed Guyon à Lyon. The clock is raised by fine tapered fluted and foliate ormolu feet below the oval base with an exquisite and extremely decorative... — Read More
An elegant French 19th century Louis XVI st. Biscuit de Sèvres and ormolu clock signed Guyon à Lyon. The clock is raised by fine tapered fluted and foliate ormolu feet below the oval base with an exquisite and extremely decorative wrap around honey comb and rosette designed fitted ormolu band. The clock above displays an enameled dial with Roman numeral hour markings and Arabic minute markings with pierced hands framed within a lovely mottled ormolu bezel. Above is a beautiful maiden draped in a wonderful flowing dress seated on a rock holding a mirror in her hand with a charming finely detailed lamb at her feet and intricate blooming flowers at the side. — Read Less
- Item # 3018
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H: 12 in L: 8.5 in D: 4 in
H: 30 cm L: 22 cm D: 10 cm
- France
- 19th Century
- Ormolu, Porcelain
- Louis XVI st. Read More
- Sèvres Read More
It was founded through the support of King Louis XV of France and at the initiative of Madame Pompadour to be located near her Château.
Due to Sèvres’ reputation for excellence and prestige, it has always attracted some of the best artists throughout history; François Boucher, Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse, Étienne Maurice Falconet, Alexandre Fragonard and August Rodin, just to name a few. Many of these artworks can be seen at the Louvre Museum and the Musée National de Céramique in France.
Initially, Sèvres created a soft paste porcelain know as Biscuit de Sèvres. In 1768 the Bordeaux chemist Villaris and Jean Baptiste Darnet discovered deposits of Kaolin on French soil. In 1771 the Royal Academy sent a report on the creation of hard paste porcelain at which time Sèvres began manufacturing hard paste porcelain.
Louis-Simon Boizot (1743–1809) was a French sculptor renowned for creating Biscuit de Sèvres models, and was the director at Sèvres from 1774-1800, followed by Alexandre Brogniart(1800-1847) and Henri Victor Regnault in 1854.
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