AFTER A DESIGN BY JEAN-CHARLES DELAFOSSE, THE MOVEMENT BY GILLE L'AINÉ, CIRCA 1770

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A LATE LOUIS XV ORMOLU CARTEL CLOCK
After a design by Jean-Charles Delafosse, the movement by Gille l'Ainé, Circa 1770
The circular white enamel dial with Roman and Arabic chapters signed 'Gille Lainé' and 'A PARIS' and eight day twin-barrel movement with silk suspension, replaced escapement and half-hour chime on bell within a rectangular tapering case surmounted by a draped vase finial and flanked by tapering pilasters with goat's masks and decorated with laurel garlands, above a glazed reserve and a leaf-wrapped base terminating in a berried finial, regilt
31½ in. (80 cm.) high; 16 in. (40 cm.) wide

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Lot Essay

This cartel clock follows a design (now at Waddeston Manor) by Jean-Charles Delafosse (d. 1791) of circa 1770 (illustrated in H. Ottomeyer, P. Pröschel et al., Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, vol. I, p. 182, fig. 3.8.2), while the same version is in Schloss Nymphenburg, Munich, (illustrated op. cit., p. 182, fig. 3.8.1.). Interestingly it also has a movement by Gille L'Ainé, who obviously specialised in movements for cartel clocks.

An almost identical cartel clock was sold anonymously in these Rooms, 25 March 1999, lot 75.

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