Clock - Meissen - Porcelain - 1750-1800

Two-part mantel clock; Meissen, c. 1770. Made by J.J. Kandler
Enameled and glazed porcelain.
It has machinery from a later period.
It has minor flaws and repainting.
It has markings on the base.
Measurements: 45.4 x 24.5 x 16.5 cm.
An 18th-century mantel clock. The case, molded in a shell shape and rimmed in blue and gold, is ornamented with gilt scrolls topped with trailing, applied flowers. The sides are decorated with openwork panels of gilt latticework, resting on four scroll-shaped feet flanked by reeds and applied flowers. The base, similarly decorated on four scroll-shaped feet, has a molded cartouche painted with flowers on the front and gilt floral panels on the sides and back. The upper section is molded with an elaborate gilt foliate scroll. The enameled dial features black Arabic numerals and blue Roman numerals.
The model appears in Kaendler's work records of July 1766 as a commission for the Chevalier de Saxe, in which he notes that it was modeled with great difficulty from a gilt bronze example. Johann Georg, Chevalier de Saxe (1704–1704), was the illegitimate son of Augustus the Strong and Queen Lubomirska. Another example of this rare clock case and stand model was in the Hermann Emden collection, Hamburg, sold by Rudolph Lepke's Kunst-Auctions-Haus, Berlin, November 3–7, 1908, lot 600.

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