19th century, bronze triptych with clock and flowered candelabra

early nineteenth century

Bronze triptych with clock and flowered candelabra

Gilt bronze and porcelain

Signed on the bezel of the watch “Bollotte A. Paris”

The present triptych depicts according to a suggestive and innovative formal solution the metaphor of the joys of life, granted by the passage of time.

On the clock case, decorated in the lower band with inserts of porcelain sections painted with festive games of little angels within pink bands, there is a pair of tenderly embraced children, a symbol, with their green age, of the perennial beauty of the feeling of love. The boy is offering his partner a nest of birds that happily reach out towards her, to metaphorize, with the underlying reference to the egg, the continuous rebirth and life of both the human race, if considered the clock that these are going to decorate, than the most genuine love. A short leafy shoot appears near the children's hands, emblem of the spontaneous and natural growth of feelings.

The pair of candlesticks that accompanies the clock follows the curious analysis of time and natural change. The thin flames that rise from the candelabra, five for each, are covered with leaves and splendid blooming flowers; they are supported by two figures, one female and one male, arranged in symmetrical attitudes matching each other. These precious additions to the watch also help to underline the emblematic flowering of love and renewal of life, cyclical in the re-presentation of its beauties.

The pleasantness of the fine restitution of the figurines that move the bronzes participates in the renowned fame of the nineteenth-century French school, widespread expert in the creation of decorated table clocks. The overflowing decorativeism of the watches produced beyond the Alps, with a design line that was at the same time neatly precise, aimed to make the art of watchmaking a modern status imposing the faculty and above all the aesthetic taste of the applicant.

This watch bears the wording “Bollotte A Paris” in the bezel of the arch, suggesting that it was made by the Bollotte watchmaker, operating in Paris at Rue Neuve Vivienne 3, as can be seen from other watches that have passed on the antique market and are now in the collection. private. These third examples allow us to place the present chronologically around the XNUMXs, from which we can understand the period of happy activity of the artist-watchmaker around these years.

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