拍品 103
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THE PROPERTY OF A LADY
A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU CARTEL CLOCK, the later circular glazed enamelled dial with Roman numerals inscribed PARIS, within a raised reeded drum, the pedestal cresting surmounted by a laurel-swagged flaming urn-finial flanked by further bifurcated finials, the pierced sides with foliate arabesque decoration above a tapering base with shaped beaded aperture and tapering giulloche-cast fruiting boss, the movement signed Ch.les Dutertre AParis

細節
A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU CARTEL CLOCK, the later circular glazed enamelled dial with Roman numerals inscribed PARIS, within a raised reeded drum, the pedestal cresting surmounted by a laurel-swagged flaming urn-finial flanked by further bifurcated finials, the pierced sides with foliate arabesque decoration above a tapering base with shaped beaded aperture and tapering giulloche-cast fruiting boss, the movement signed Ch.les Dutertre AParis
26in. (66cm.) high
來源
A related clock was sold anonymously in these Rooms, 6 December 1979, lot 20.

拍品專文

Charles Dutertre, maître in 1758.

The design for this cartel clock by Pierre-Antoine Foullet is illustrated in H. Ottomeyer and P. Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, Vol. I, p. 184. Interchangeable for use either as a cartel clock or a barometer, a barometer of this model is illustrated in N. de Reyniès, Le Mobilier Domestique, Paris, 1987, vol. II, p. 979, fig. 3745.