A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU CARTEL CLOCK

AFTER A DESIGN BY JEAN-CHARLES DELAFOSSE

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A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU CARTEL CLOCK
After a design by Jean-Charles Delafosse
The circular enamelled dial with Roman and Arabic chapters , inscribed 'GIDE A PARIS', within a reeded bezel and a shaped case with fluting and Vitruvian scroll above and headed by a drapery-hung urn with pine-cone finial, the sides with an angled husk-trailed pilaster with fruiting finial hung with fruiting laurel swags and above a glazed section, the lower section with four small pine-cone finials and a central dentilled fruiting and foliate boss, with pendulum, lacking winder and glazing to dial
32 in. (81 cm.) high

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Either Etienne Gide, recorded in Paris between 1754 and 1770, or Xavier Gide (1737-1791), both who worked with Breguet.

This cartel clock follows the right side of a design (now in the Waddeston Manor National Trust) by Jean-Charles Delafosse (d. 1791) of circa 1770 (H. Ottomeyer, P. Prschel, et al., Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, vol. I, p. 182, fig. 3.8.2), while an executed version is illustrated in Ottomeyer, op. cit., p. 182, fig. 3.8.4.