A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED AND BRONZE-INLAID CORNE VERTE BRACKET TIMEPIECE

ATTRIBUTED TO FRANÇOIS GOYER

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A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED AND BRONZE-INLAID CORNE VERTE BRACKET TIMEPIECE
Attributed to François Goyer
Inlaid overall with flowerheads and trailing foliage issuing further flowers, the engraved ormolu dial with Arabic and Roman enamel chapters, the shaped glazed door with foliate scrolling mount and within a shaped case with foliate and rockwork angles, surmounted by a tapering foliate-mounted bracket and on pierced C-scroll feet, the bracket with rockwork edges and pierced C-scroll and foliate tapering angles centred by a pierced foliate mount and above a conforming pierced boss, stamped 'JME' and indistinctly with maker's name, distressed and lacking the finial to top, the movement inscribed 'Jolin a Orléans', one pendulum, with single-going barrel, later anchor escapement, pull quarter repeat on two bells and pull wind alarm
33¾ in. (85 cm.) high (2)

拍品专文

Louis Jolin flourished in Orléans from 1740 onwards and died in 1781.
The indistinct maker's stamp on the case probably belongs to François Goyer, maître in 1740, who is recorded as having produced bracket clocks of similar charcter. One closely related clock by him with gilt-metal inlay to the corne verte-veneered carcase, from the collection of Sir Charles Clore [+], sold Christie's Monaco, 6 December 1985, lot 22, and a further version with movement by F. Lournoy is in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.