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Louis-Antoine Leplat, maître in 1733
The Property of
THE MEIKLOUR ESTATE TRUST
Sold by order of the Trustees
(Lots 124-128
The following lots formed part of the celebrated collection of French furniture and objets d'art formed by Margaret, Baroness Keith and Nairne (1788-1867) and her husband Auguste-Charles-Joseph, Conte de Flahault de la Billarderie (1785-1870), natural son of Talleyrand (1754-1838). The Flahaults married in 1817 and spent fifty years together during which they amassed the collection that became concentrated at Meikleour in Perthshire in the late 19th Century. Pieces from Meikleour were sold in these Rooms, 11 June 1992, lots 1-60. Other pieces from the Flahault Collection are now in the collection of the National Trust at Berrington, Herefordshire.
AN EARLY LOUIS XV ORMOLU CARTEL CLOCK, the circular enamelled dial signed LEPLAT A PARIS, the movement similarly signed, with later anchor escapement, the cartouche-shaped asymmetric case cast with rocaille and cloud swirls with nymph cresting, the lower part with two putti stretching up flanking a later red glass panel, the three figures probably originally bronzed
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AN EARLY LOUIS XV ORMOLU CARTEL CLOCK, the circular enamelled dial signed LEPLAT A PARIS, the movement similarly signed, with later anchor escapement, the cartouche-shaped asymmetric case cast with rocaille and cloud swirls with nymph cresting, the lower part with two putti stretching up flanking a later red glass panel, the three figures probably originally bronzed
30½in. (77.5cm.) high
30½in. (77.5cm.) high
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