A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU QUARTER-CHIMING TRAVELLING CLOCK

BY JEAN-ANTOINE LÉPINE

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A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU QUARTER-CHIMING TRAVELLING CLOCK
By Jean-Antoine Lépine
The enamelled circular dial with Roman and Arabic chapters signed Lepine HGER DU ROI, within a rectangular case surmounted by four ball-finials, the domed top with engraved hunting trophies surmounted by a handle, the front engraved with flowerheads to the angles and trophies of the Arts and Astronomy centred by two birds resting on a quiver, the sides with glazed panels, on ball feet, the twin-barrel movement with early lever escapement with 'scape wheel and regulation mounted on the backplate, signed Lepine Hger. Du Roi AParis No 408, quarter and hour striking by means of a countwheel on two bells in the domed top, one ball foot replaced, one glass panel broken
10½in. (27cm.) high

拍品專文

Jean-Antoine Lépine was apprenticed to André-Charles Caron, whose daughter he married in 1756. He succeeded Caron in 1766.
Lépine was appointed horloger du Roi in the 1780s at which time he was associated with Pierre Raguet. During this period Lépine provided Louis XVI, Madame Elisabeth and the Spanish Court with several clocks of which the Pendule à tête de négresse, now in the collection of H. M. the Queen, is perhaps the most celebrated.