A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED KINGWOOD AND PARQUETRY BRACKET CLOCK

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A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED KINGWOOD AND PARQUETRY BRACKET CLOCK
The dial with individual Roman and Arabic enamelled cartouche chapters and blued steel hands, replacement alarm disc to the centre, the movement with four tapered baluster pillars, going spring barrel with later deadbeat escapement with silk-suspended pendulum regulated via a small square in chapter XII, pull quarter repeat on a bell via two hammers and alarm via a further hammer, the backplate signed 'Pelletier Horloger du Roi A Paris', in a cartouche-shaped case with foliate mounts headed by a Neptune's mask, on dolphin feet, the ormolu struck repeatedly with the C couronn poinon, with pendulum, the cresting mount later, the movement possibly replaced
14 in. (36 cm.) high

拍品專文

The C couronn poinon was a tax mark employed in France between March 1745 and February 1749 on any alloy containing copper.

The signature on the movement probably refers to Pelletier, matre in 1776, who was valet de chambre et horloger du roi at Versailles. He is recorded signing 'Pelletier horloger du Roy'.