A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU CARTEL CLOCK, the circular glazed enamelled dial with both Arabic and Roman numerals spelt C.Brént A PARIS, the gadrooned body surmounted by a drapery-swagged neo-classical urn supported on Greek-key brackets and flanked by rams-headed pilaster strips, with material-backed pierced trellis worked sides, hung with Hercules' icon pelt with a channelled frame upon guttae-headed fruiting foliate boss

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A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU CARTEL CLOCK, the circular glazed enamelled dial with both Arabic and Roman numerals spelt C.Brént A PARIS, the gadrooned body surmounted by a drapery-swagged neo-classical urn supported on Greek-key brackets and flanked by rams-headed pilaster strips, with material-backed pierced trellis worked sides, hung with Hercules' icon pelt with a channelled frame upon guttae-headed fruiting foliate boss
16in. (41cm.) wide; 31½in. (80cm.) high

Lot Essay

Possibly Jean-Nicolas-Michel Bréant, maître in 1778. A clock of the same model with movement by Joseph Barbe was sold at Etude Couturier Nicolay, 16 June 1993, lot 137

This goût Grec cartel clock is after a design by Jean-Charles Delafosse, now at Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire. The design, together with a closely related cartel clock, are illustrated in
H. Ottomeyer and P. Proschel, vergoldete Bronzen, Munich 1986, p.182, figs. 3.8.1 and 3.8.2

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