Morize à Paris
Beautiful early French vase Mantel clock signed with: "Morize à Paris"
This clockmaker is listed on page 477 in Dictionnaire des Horlogers Francais. A fine maker.
The cabinet is exceptionally beautiful and delicately ornamented, it is suspected that this cabinet was made by Glaude Gallé, a famous bronze caster.
At the top of the neck of the vase is a frieze of four putti illustrating the seasons.
The "ears or handles" are finely decorated with vine leaves, with a bearded man's head at the bottom and ending in a curl with an owl's head at the top. (The owl, symbol of wisdom and knowledge)
As a decoration on the square base, a lazy reclining Cupid symbolizes the passage of time.
Large and original eight-day early movement with cord regulation and striking mechanism with a locking wheel striking on a bell, every half and full hour.
The enamel dial has a small restoration above the left winding hole. Hands in the well-known Breguet shape.
Period Empire ca. 1800.
Dimensions: 42 (high) x 13.5 (width base) x 13.5 (depth base) cm.
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Internet: La Pendulerie
Claude GalleBronzier
(1759 - 1815)
One of the foremost bronziers and fondeur-ciseleurs of the late Louis XVI and Empire periods, Claude Galle was born at Villepreux near Versailles. He served his apprenticeship in Paris under the fondeur Pierre Foy, and in 1784 married Foy’s daughter. In 1786 he became a maitre-fondeur. After the death of his father-in-law in 1788, Galle took over his workshop, soon turning it into one the finest, and employing approximately 400 craftsmen. Galle moved to Quai de la Monnaie (later Quai de l’Unité), and then in 1805 to 60 Rue Vivienne.
The Garde-Meuble de la Couronne, under the direction of sculptor Jean Hauré from 1786-88, entrusted him with many commissions. Galle collaborated with many excellent artisans, including Pierre-Philippe Thomire, and furnished the majority of the furnishing bronzes for the Château de Fontainebleau during the Empire. He received many other Imperial commissions, among them light fittings, figural clock cases, and vases for the palaces of Saint-Cloud, the Trianons, the Tuileries, Compiègne, and Rambouillet. He supplied several Italian palaces, such as Monte Cavallo, Rome and Stupinigi near Turin.
In spite of his success, and due in part to his generous and lavish lifestyle, as well as to the failure of certain of his clients (such as the Prince Joseph Bonaparte) to pay what they owed, Galle often found himself in financial difficulty. Galle’s business was continued by his son after his death by his son, Gérard-Je
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