拍品 151
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A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU CARTEL CLOCK, the circular glazed enamelled dial signed HERBAULT A PARIS, within a stepped square frame with floral-bursts to the corners surmounted by a turned urn swagged with laurel-garlands and surmounted by a bifurcated-finial, the pierced, channelled, tapering base with an acanthus-cast boss, the movement signed to the reverse Herbault AParis no.381

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A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU CARTEL CLOCK, the circular glazed enamelled dial signed HERBAULT A PARIS, within a stepped square frame with floral-bursts to the corners surmounted by a turned urn swagged with laurel-garlands and surmounted by a bifurcated-finial, the pierced, channelled, tapering base with an acanthus-cast boss, the movement signed to the reverse Herbault AParis no.381
7½in. (19cm.) wide; 17½in. (44.5cm.) high

拍品專文

Louis-Francois Herbault, Paris, ma<->itre in 1743, Juré 1761-89
The design for this cartel clock in among a group of clock-cases drawings in the Bibliothèque Doucet, no. 96 (see: H. Ottomeyer and P. Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, vol. 1, p. 188, fig. 3.8.9). The fondeur Fremont is recorded as having asked 72 livres for the ungilded case.

A cartel clock of the same model was sold in these Rooms, 14 June 1990, lot 96