A LOUIS XV ORMOLU CARTEL CLOCK by Jean-Joseph de St. Germain, the glazed enamelled dial with Roman and Arabic chapters signed AMY DENTAN A PARIS, the movement signed Amy Dentan AParis no. 507, in a symmetrical scrolling foliate and voluted case surmounted by a pierced cartouche above a putto holding a bird-cage and a parrot, flanked by acanthus leaves and flowers centred by a trophy, the base decorated with sprays of flowers and vines, re-gilt, the case stamped ST. GERMAIN

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A LOUIS XV ORMOLU CARTEL CLOCK by Jean-Joseph de St. Germain, the glazed enamelled dial with Roman and Arabic chapters signed AMY DENTAN A PARIS, the movement signed Amy Dentan AParis no. 507, in a symmetrical scrolling foliate and voluted case surmounted by a pierced cartouche above a putto holding a bird-cage and a parrot, flanked by acanthus leaves and flowers centred by a trophy, the base decorated with sprays of flowers and vines, re-gilt, the case stamped ST. GERMAIN
19in. (48.5cm.) wide; 33in. (84cm.) high

来源

Anonymous sale, Sotheby's London, 11 December 1970, lot 11

拍品专文

Jean-Joseph de Saint-Germain, the celebrated fondeur-racheveur, maître in 1754.
Amy Denton, maître in 1754.

An identical cartel clock signed by Saint-Germain, the movement by Georges Causard, horloger du Roy, was sold by the Executors of the late Captain L.W. Neeld in these Rooms, 24 April 1958, lot 108