Lot Essay
Alexandre Lefaucheur, maître horloger in 1729 and horloger du roi in 1748.
PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF PROFESSOR AND MRS. CLIFFORD AMBROSE TRUESDELL (LOT 299)
A LOUIS XV ORMOLU STRIKING CARTEL CLOCK
BY LEFAUCHEUR, PARIS, CIRCA 1745
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A LOUIS XV ORMOLU STRIKING CARTEL CLOCK
BY LEFAUCHEUR, PARIS, CIRCA 1745
With Hercules dressed in the skin of the Nemean lion, killing the lion of Mount Cithaeron, the white enamel dial with Roman hours and Arabic seconds, the movement with twin barrels and strike on bell, striking the hours and half-hours on one bell, the mainspring signed MASSONS 1740, the case with a putto cast with shells and rocaille, regilt
34 in. (86.5 cm.) high
BY LEFAUCHEUR, PARIS, CIRCA 1745
With Hercules dressed in the skin of the Nemean lion, killing the lion of Mount Cithaeron, the white enamel dial with Roman hours and Arabic seconds, the movement with twin barrels and strike on bell, striking the hours and half-hours on one bell, the mainspring signed MASSONS 1740, the case with a putto cast with shells and rocaille, regilt
34 in. (86.5 cm.) high
Provenance
with Jeremy, London, in 1973.
Brought to you by
Casey Rogers
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