A gilt and patinated bronze Consulate pendule 'A l'Afrique', Jean-Simon Deverberie, Paris, 1800-1804

H 47,5 - L 37 - D 14,5 cm

Thanks to the signature on its dial: Deverberie, rue Barbette No. 483 à Paris, its manufacture by the master himself is confirmed. Other bronze workers copied this popular design at the same time, and continued to do so until 1830. The address on rue Barbette (in the Marais district) allows us to determine the period of its creation: in the Paris trade almanac, Deverberie operates at this address from 1800 to 1804. He had also deposited the preparatory drawing for this clock with the Cabinet des Estampes (Prints Department) of the Bibliothèque nationale de France (National Library of France) in 1799.

Ref.:
- Christie's, New York, April 8, 2025, lot 10, for a later example. (sold USD 20.160) (link)
- Osenat, Fontainebleau, March 25, 2023, lot 101, for another example signed Deverberie and also bearing the Rue Barbette address. (sold EUR 20.625) (link)
- Elke Niehüser, French Bronze Clocks, Munich 1999, Schiffer Ed., p. 146, fig. 236.
- Hans Ottomeyer and Peter Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich 1986, p. 381, Fig. 5.15.25.
- Pierre Kjellberg, Encyclopédie de la pendule française, Paris 1994, l'Amateur Ed. , p. 351.