十八世紀 鎏金銅嵌琺瑯料石雙柱轉花容鏡音樂鐘
估價
3,000,000 - 4,000,000 HKD
招標截止
描述
of lavish portico design, the breakfront base resting on eight toupee feet and modelled with two drawers flanking a central guilloché panel decorated in gold, blue, green and red metal foils against a rich royal blue ground, depicting floral sprays flanking an oval medallion enclosing a vase of floral blooms, each front of the drawers with a red and white paste-set finial, all bordered with a beaded edge and resting on three further guilloché panels, the top of the base decorated with eight chain-linked neoclassical vases, surrounding a central replaced mount modelled as an eagle standing on rockwork in the form of a bear's head, flanked by a pair of columns and plinths similarly delicately decorated with guilloché panels and paste gems depicting florets and foliage, each column surmounted by an ormolu vase issuing paste-set silver floral sprigs and decorated on the exterior with upright lappets, flanking a similar central vessel with paste-set silver floral sprays resting on the clock, the dial with a red and white paste-set bezel over a white enamel dial with dot minute track, Roman hours and Arabic quarters, encircling the pierced hands, the music work in the centre of the base
來源
東京根津美術館收藏
香港佳士得2008年5月27日,編號1506
拍品資料及來源
這座西洋機械音樂鐘富麗堂皇,賞心悅目,功能卻又複雜奇巧,誠十八世紀中期後歐洲為中國市場所製之座鐘精品。乾隆皇帝熱衷收藏鐘錶和自動機械人偶,對歐洲舶來品和中國製造的座鐘皆青睞有加,蒐藏數以千計,設計精緻新奇,由於多為賞玩而非實用報時,又稱為音樂鐘。
相類座鐘,除故宮外,歷經歲月尚能保存良好者甚罕。從北京故宮博物院所藏卻可見當時所製座鐘,材質各式各樣,見《你應該知道的二百件鐘錶》,北京,20✤07年,書中載錄一件座鐘,造形與本品相近,底座配抽屜♒,圖版93。此鐘以鷹與熊為飾,諧音英雄,中國特色明顯。前述故宮鐘例則飾有中國風格之菠蘿轉花,秒針造形又與許多中國製座鐘相同。這兩件座鐘有多處相似,包括瑞士製機芯、琺瑯水法,溢法國路易十六後期風格,或出自同一作坊。此外,由於許多瑞士鐘錶商及製錶師曾居倫敦,故此類奢華鐘錶,除富瑞士風格,也見英倫影響,本品與故宮藏例亦不例外,如觀指針之形便可見一斑。
西洋鐘錶與奇玩,早於乾隆以前,已為遠東所珍。二十世紀初英國學者 Simon Harcourt-Smith 研究故宮所藏西洋機械鐘錶,並將所得著錄成書,《A Catalogue of Various Clocks, Watches, Automata, and other Miscellaneous Objects of European Workmanship Dating from the XVIII and Early XIX Centuries, in the Palace Museum and the Wu Ying Tien, Peiping》,北京,1933年,當時此類西洋鐘錶已極珍稀,他在引言中道,中國宮廷對西方鐘錶和新奇之物的興趣早啟於十四世紀,時有一位法國鐵匠 Guillaume Boucher,可能在匈牙利為蒙古人所擄,後為忽必烈製作了一座華美的水法座鐘♉。明萬曆二十七年(1599年),傳教士利瑪竇抵京面聖,進獻座鐘,因此深得君心,獲准入宮。康熙年間十七世紀末,已有大量洋鐘傳入宮廷。至乾隆之時,每年傳入中國之西洋鐘錶、珍玩、儀器,數以千計,精妙絕倫之處,前所未見。在北京紫禁城、圓明園、熱河行宮各處皆可見精緻富麗的時計,水法流轉,異彩渙渙。