A Louis XVI ormolu cartel clock with later circular glazed dial inscribed Thiout A Paris, the associated movement signed Thiout Le Jeune AParis, the case cast with acanthus-scrolls and hung with drapery below a neo-classical urn with pine-cone finial, the base with open section above a female mask

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A Louis XVI ormolu cartel clock with later circular glazed dial inscribed Thiout A Paris, the associated movement signed Thiout Le Jeune AParis, the case cast with acanthus-scrolls and hung with drapery below a neo-classical urn with pine-cone finial, the base with open section above a female mask
36in. (91.5cm.) high

Lot Essay

Pierre-Nicolas Thiont, fils de maître in 1773

A clock and barometer in closely related cases apart from the Vitruvian-scroll frieze which was reeded, were sold from the Collection of the Rt. Hon. Lord Rothschild, G.M., F.R.S., Christie's London, 14 May 1970, lot 43

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