A FINE LOUIS XV SMALL ORMOLU CARTEL CLOCK

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A FINE LOUIS XV SMALL ORMOLU CARTEL CLOCK
JEAN BAPTISTE BAILLON A PARIS, NO. 2067, THE CASE STAMPED S. GERMAIN

Cast and finely chased with leafy scrolls and trailing flowered vines, the signed circular white enamel dial with blue roman chapters, gilt fleur-de-lis half-hour marks and arabic minute numerals, gilt fleur-de- lis hands, within glazed moulded bezel, the substantial movement between shaped oblong plates with verge escapement, thread suspension to pendulum, striking the hour and half-hour by means of numbered countwheel, c. 1750--22½in. (57cm.) high