THE DIAL SIGNED MONTJOYE FILS

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A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU CARTEL CLOCK
The dial signed Montjoye Fils
The circular enamel dial with Roman and Arabic chapters, signed 'MONTJOYE FILS', with pierced foliate hands and within a shaped case surmounted by a draped astralobe above a laurel swag, the sides with Greek key hung with berried acanthus, above a foliate boss flanked by puttae, above an acanthus finial, regilt, the later movement signed 'KLAFTENBERGER 157 REGENT STREET & PARIS' and stamped 'JBD' in an ellipse and numbered '37422 12 - 6'
17 in. (43 cm.) x 8½ in. (21.5 cm.) wide

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Lot Essay

Jean-Louis Montjoye, eldest son of Paris clockmaker Louis Montjoye, is recorded with his father in 1772; and as pendulier in Rue St-Julien-le-Pauvre in 1781.

P. Kjellberg illustrates a closely related model in Encyclopédie de la Pendule Française, Paris, 1997, pp. 190-1, ill.E.

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