THE DIAL SIGNED 'AUTRAN A MONTELIMAR', THE ORMOLU ROCKWORK BASE AND BOAR 19TH CENTURY, THE CLOCK CASE AND MUSICAL BASE LOUIS XV, BUT ASSOCIATED

Details

A FRENCH ORMOLU, PATINATED BRONZE AND CORNE VERTE QUARTER REPEATING ORGAN CLOCK
The dial signed 'Autran A Montelimar', the ormolu rockwork base and boar 19th century, the clock case and musical base Louis XV, but associated
The Roman and Arabic white enamel dial signed 'AUTRAN A MONTELIMAR', the Swiss twin barrel movement with later anchor escapement, pull quarter repeat and hour strike on three bells, with rack and snail and calibrated countwheel to the backplate signed 'JEAN FRANçOIS AUTRAN A MONTELIMAR': the case surmounted by a putto supported on the back of a boar, above a serpentine casket-shaped base and with a gadrooned border, the sides with trellis panels, the front with a basket and sprays of flowers and acanthus scroll, the base housing an organ driven by a movement with wooden fusee and gut lines, with 9in. long wood pin barrel playing on 14 pipes via a set of bellows, the mounts bearing spurious C couronné poinçons
29½ in. (75 cm.) high; 21 in. (53 cm.) wide; 12 in. (30 cm.) deep

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 25 June 1982, lot 68 (to Dreesmann). Dr Anton C.R. Dreesmann (inventory no. K-31).

Literature

H. Ottomeyer/P. Pröschel et al., Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, vol. I, p. 123, fig. 2.8.4.

Special notice

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Lot Essay

The C couronné poinçon was a tax mark used in France between March 1745 and February 1749 on any alloy containing copper.

Related clocks include one sold at Christie's New York, 31 October 1996, lot 417, and a further from the Roberto Polo collection, sold Sotheby's New York, 3 November 1989, lot 44.

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