A Beautiful Late 19th Century Gilt Bronze Mounted Cartel Clock By Henry Dasson
Item # VB44
$75,000
Henry Dasson – After Martin Carlin
This large and fine cartel clock with a white enamel dial festooned with gilt bronze trailing oak leaves and surmounted by a flaming urn, the tapering case below is mounted with ribbon tied garlands and fronded acanthus.
Signed Henry Dasson A Paris to the clock face.
The design is based on the celebrated model by Martin Carlin, formerly at Château d’Eu and now conserved at the Louvre.
Henry Dasson was considered one of the finest makers of gilt bronze mounted furniture in the nineteenth Century. He established a workshop at 106 rue Vieille-du-Temple, Paris, and specialised in the production of Louis XIV, Louis XV and Louis XVI style furniture using the very finest ormolu mounts with the highest quality mercury gilding. In 1871, Dasson purchase Charles-Guillaume Winckelsen business and remaining stock.
Dasson exhibited at the 1878 and 1889 Paris Exhibition. He displayed Louis XV and XVI styles as well as pieces of his own modified eighteenth century design. The exhibits in 1878 included a table entirely in gilt bronze, purchased by Lord Dudley.
Details:
Height – 56 inches / 142cm
Width – 15 inches / 38cm
Depth – 6.5 inches / 17cm
