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拍品专文
This superb clock displays the virtuosity and innovative decoration of Joseph Coteau (1740-1812), possibly the most famous enameller of his day, who supplied dials for the greatest clockmakers of France. Born in Geneva, he became maître-peintre-émailleur at the Académie de Saint-Luc in Geneva in 1766. By 1772 he was installed in Rue Poupée, Paris. Beyond his enamel dials, Coteau was a skilled miniaturist, discovering a new method for gilt-decorated enamels "d'appliquer solidement l'or marié avec les émaux de toutes couleurs sur la porcelaine", such as is seen on the enamels on this clock which cleverly mimic porcelain plaques. Coteau worked closely with the Sèvres factory in developing their 'jewelled' porcelain, and his name first appears in the kiln records at Sèvres in 1780.
The clockmaker Dieudonné Kinable (d. circa 1815) was established at Palais Royal no. 131 and was active at the end of the eighteenth century. Specializing in clocks incorporating polychrome enamel or porcelain, particularly lyre-form clocks, Kinable was the largest buyer of porcelain lyre-form clock cases from the Sèvres factory, buying thirteen between 1795 and 1807. He often collaborated with Coteau and the enameller Dubuisson.
Similarly to most related clocks manufactured at the end of the eighteenth century, the enamel plaques of this lot are fixed to a skeleton case resulting in a wonderful amalgam of the interest in technical novelties with the desire for graceful decoration. A skeleton clock with similar enameling by Coteau and movement by Laurent is illustrated in J.D. Augarde, Les Ouvriers du Temps, Geneva, 1996, p. 340. A closely related clock signed by Coteau was sold from the collection of Juan de Beistegui, Christie’s, Paris, 10 September 2018, lot 70 (€112,500). Most recently, a very similar clock also decorated with the story of Psyche and signed by both Kinable and Coteau was sold Hôtel Lambert, Une Collection Princière; Sotheby’s, Paris, 13 October 2022, lot 627 (€317,600).
The clockmaker Dieudonné Kinable (d. circa 1815) was established at Palais Royal no. 131 and was active at the end of the eighteenth century. Specializing in clocks incorporating polychrome enamel or porcelain, particularly lyre-form clocks, Kinable was the largest buyer of porcelain lyre-form clock cases from the Sèvres factory, buying thirteen between 1795 and 1807. He often collaborated with Coteau and the enameller Dubuisson.
Similarly to most related clocks manufactured at the end of the eighteenth century, the enamel plaques of this lot are fixed to a skeleton case resulting in a wonderful amalgam of the interest in technical novelties with the desire for graceful decoration. A skeleton clock with similar enameling by Coteau and movement by Laurent is illustrated in J.D. Augarde, Les Ouvriers du Temps, Geneva, 1996, p. 340. A closely related clock signed by Coteau was sold from the collection of Juan de Beistegui, Christie’s, Paris, 10 September 2018, lot 70 (€112,500). Most recently, a very similar clock also decorated with the story of Psyche and signed by both Kinable and Coteau was sold Hôtel Lambert, Une Collection Princière; Sotheby’s, Paris, 13 October 2022, lot 627 (€317,600).