THE MOVEMENT BY CARON ET LEPINE, CIRCA 1780

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A LOUIS XVI CARVED GILTWOOD CARTEL CLOCK
THE MOVEMENT BY CARON ET LEPINE, CIRCA 1780
The painted glass Roman and Arabic dial signed CARON ET LEPINE HORLOGERS DU ROY A PARIS the movement with rectangular plates with four back-pinned baluster pillars, twin spring barrels, pinwheel escapement with silk-suspended pendulum, the backplate with calibrated countwheel strike on a bell, the backplate signed Caron et Lepine Hger du Roi AParis, framed by a ribbon-tied frieze and flanked by scrolling foliage and olive tree branches, the cresting decorated with a ribbon-twist above a draped putto, the base carved with another putto standing beside a trophy with a quiver, a book and a snake, the handles associated, the glazed bezel lacking, restorations, the ribbon-tie regilt but probably original
42½ in. (108 cm.) high; 25 in. (63 cm.) wide

Provenance

Acquired on 3 July 1906.

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Lot Essay

Jean-Antoine Lépine, maître in 1762.

Lépine took over Caron's business in 1762, when he was received as a maître by a decree exempting him from his lack of apprentissage.

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