GILDED BRONZE PENDULUM CLOCK WITH THE PUNISHMENT OF CUPID
Paris. Ca. 1800. Jean Deverberie & Cie

Gilded bronze. Enamel dial. Rectangular base with cupid frieze on feet. Thereon Venus trimming the wings of her son Cupid with scissors; laterally the overboiling cauldron of love with turtledoves and towering clouds. Round enamel dial with Roman numerals and Arabic minutes. Large round pendulum movement with thread suspension and chime on a bell. Height 46cm. Inscribed on the dial Jn.t ft. Deverberie & Cgnie; Rue des Foss閟 du Temple No.47.
Condition B. Scissors partly added. P/S.

Provenance:
Private collection Rhineland; bought Van Ham Kunstauktionen; Auction 256; Lot 154.

Literature:
Tardy: Dictionnaire des Horlogers Francais; Paris 1972. Maker cf. p. 184.


Deverberie counts among the leading Parisian clockmakers at the turn of the 18th to 19th
century. In his workshop he did not limit himself to the production of the clock
movements; instead also designing many clock models. Many design drawings preserved in the
Cabinet des Estampes der Biblioth鑡ue Nationale in Paris exist to evidence this.
Pendulum clocks by Deverberie are located among others in the Mus閑 des Arts Decoratifs in
Paris and in the Palazzo Pitti in Florence.