A LOUIS XV ORMOLU MANTEL CLOCK

THE CASE STAMPED ST.GERMAIN, THE DIAL SIGNED JEAN-BAPTISTE BAILLON, CIRCA 1745

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A LOUIS XV ORMOLU MANTEL CLOCK
The case stamped ST.GERMAIN, the dial signed Jean-Baptiste Baillon, Circa 1745
The white enamelled dial with Arabic and Roman chapter rings and elaborate pierced hands signed JN.BAPTISTE/BAILLON, behind a glazed door, within a molded and scrolled swept asymmetrical case set at the sides with flowering acanthus, the canted pedestal top surmounted by a draped seated putto holding a peacock atop clouds, a shepherd's trophy beneath the dial, on scrolled feet, atop a rocky scrolled bracket, the movement signed J.B. Baillon AParis/no 4252,lacking two trumpets from the trophy
21in. (53.5cm.) high, 12½in. (31.5cm.) wide, 9in. (23cm.) deep

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Jean-Baptsite III Albert Baillon became a maître in 1727 and succeeded as Valet de Chambre-Horloger Ordinaire and Premier Valet de Chambre to both Queen Marie Leczinska and the dauphine Marie-Antoinette. With a large workshop in Saint-German-en-Laye he was one of the most important and wealthy clockmakers of the 18th century.
A virtually-identical clock, the case stamped by Jean-Joseph de Saint-Germain (1719-91), but surmounted by love birds, is illustrated in P. Kjellberg, Encyclopédie de la Pendule française du Moyen Age au XXe Siècle, Paris, 1997, p. 112, fig. A.