Lot 13
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A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED BRASS-INLAID ROSEWOOD AND TORTOISESHELL BOULLE MARQUETRY BRACKET CLOCK, the movement by François Clement, the case by François Goyer, with circular Roman enamel-chaptered dial signed FCRE FCOIS CLEMENT-PARIS, the similarly signed five pillar movement now with anchor escapement and numbered outside counterwheel strike on bell, in a hinged glazed waisted cartouche-shaped case with central mount of a young girl holding a bunch of flowers and dipping her feet in water, and mounted overall with foliate acanthus-cast scrolls, the domed rectangular cresting surmounted by a turbanned figure of Cupid seated on a rock, on heavily scrolled acanthus-cast feet, the case stamped F. GOYER twice, the mounts struck with the C-couronné poinçon

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A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED BRASS-INLAID ROSEWOOD AND TORTOISESHELL BOULLE MARQUETRY BRACKET CLOCK, the movement by François Clement, the case by François Goyer, with circular Roman enamel-chaptered dial signed FCRE FCOIS CLEMENT-PARIS, the similarly signed five pillar movement now with anchor escapement and numbered outside counterwheel strike on bell, in a hinged glazed waisted cartouche-shaped case with central mount of a young girl holding a bunch of flowers and dipping her feet in water, and mounted overall with foliate acanthus-cast scrolls, the domed rectangular cresting surmounted by a turbanned figure of Cupid seated on a rock, on heavily scrolled acanthus-cast feet, the case stamped F. GOYER twice, the mounts struck with the C-couronné poinçon
36½in. (92.5cm.) high (3)

Lot Essay

Fiacre-François Clement, maître in 1743
François Goyer, maître in 1740

The C-couronné poinçon was a tax mark used on any alloy containing copper between March 1745 and February 1749

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