"The Allegory of Music"

A Louis XVI Ormolu Timepiece
boasting
Joseph Coteau's Exquisite Polychrome Enamelling
&
Dieudonné Kinable's Crafted Movement

Paris, c. 1785

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Enamel by Joseph coteau (1740-1812)

Signed below the lunar dial Coteau invéf.t and on the reverse of one of the enamel plaques Coteau / No.5

Movement by Dieudonné Kinable (d. after 1815)

Signed on an enamel plaque within the apron below the dial Kinable and on the reverse rue paupe no. 7 / quart saint andré.

Gilt bronze and polychrome enamel

Height 51 cm, width 37 cm.

Publication

Jean-Dominique Augarde, "Les Ouvriers du Temps", 1996, p. 342

​Tardy, La Pendule Française, 1981, vol.II, pp.210-211.

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Provenance :

- Anonymous sale; Sotheby's Monaco, 19-20 June 1992, lot 661

- Private Collection, Paris

- Acquired by M. Bruce Kovner.

- Important European Furniture, Ceramics, Sculpture, Tapestries and Carpets; Christies New York, 18 May 2006, lot 814.

- Collection of a Private German Collector.

20 in. (51 cm.) high, 14½ in. (37 cm.) wide