细节
A FRENCH ORMOLU, PATINATED BRONZE AND CORNE VERTE QUARTER REPEATING ORGAN CLOCK
The dial signed 'Autran A Montelimar', the ormolu rockwork base and boar 19th century, the clock case and musical base Louis XV, but associated
The Roman and Arabic white enamel dial signed 'AUTRAN A MONTELIMAR', the Swiss twin barrel movement with later anchor escapement, pull quarter repeat and hour strike on three bells, with rack and snail and calibrated countwheel to the backplate signed 'JEAN FRANçOIS AUTRAN A MONTELIMAR': the case surmounted by a putto supported on the back of a boar, above a serpentine casket-shaped base and with a gadrooned border, the sides with trellis panels, the front with a basket and sprays of flowers and acanthus scroll, the base housing an organ driven by a movement with wooden fusee and gut lines, with 9in. long wood pin barrel playing on 14 pipes via a set of bellows, the mounts bearing spurious C couronné poinçons
29½ in. (75 cm.) high; 21 in. (53 cm.) wide; 12 in. (30 cm.) deep
来源
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 25 June 1982, lot 68 (to Dreesmann). Dr Anton C.R. Dreesmann (inventory no. K-31).
出版
H. Ottomeyer/P. Pröschel et al., Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, vol. I, p. 123, fig. 2.8.4.
注意事项
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.
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