BY GILLES DE BEEFE, LIÈGE, MID 18TH CENTURY

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An ormolu-mounted brass-inlaid and stained bone striking bracket clock
By Gilles de Beefe, Liège, mid 18th Century
The dial signed GILLES.DE BEEFE/A LIEGE in the centre of the white-enamelled dial with individual Roman and Arabic cartouches, the movement with twin going barrels and four back-pinned pillars, verge escapement and outside countwheel strike on a bell above, the case of waisted form applied with foliate ormolu mounts, with a conforming wall bracket en suite, surmounted by a bell-shaped top with a figural finial of a Chinaman, restorations
108cm. high

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Lot Essay

Gilles de Beefe was born in 1694 in Liège. He worked in Lissabon and became horloger du prince-èvêque de Liege in 1740 and in 1767 in Maastricht.

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