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THE PROPERTY OF THE EXECUTORS OF THE LATE SIR EMMANUEL KAYE C.B.E. (LOTS 301-451)

A Louis XV ormolu cartel-clock

GALLOIS A PARIS

Details

A Louis XV ormolu cartel-clock
Gallois a Paris
The waisted case modelled with a figure of Diana to the cresting and with scroll sides, with two cherubs flying on nimbi below, the white enamel Roman and Arabic dial signed GALLOIS A PARIS, with gilt-metal hands, a later pendulum regulation scale behind the bezel above 60, the single barrel movement with circular plates and four back-pinned pillars, with later anchor escapement and now with Brocot type regulation, with repeat signature to the backplate
21½in. (55cm.) high

Provenance

Bought from R. A. Lee, 4 February 1965, for £285.

Special notice

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Lot Essay

This model of cartel-clock is well known and was used by several other clock-makers. An example of was sold from the Espirito Santo Collection, in these Rooms, 12 December 1996, lot 17. A cartel-clock of this model, but with patinated bronze figures is in the Mus©e Carnavalet, Paris (see Collection Henriette Bouvier , Paris, 1980, no. 88) Another is illustrated in P. Kjellberg, Encyclopédie de la pendule Française, Paris, 1997, p. 100.

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