Lot 33
33
A LOUIS XV ORMOLU CARTEL CLOCK
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A LOUIS XV ORMOLU CARTEL CLOCK

MID-18TH CENTURY

Details
A LOUIS XV ORMOLU CARTEL CLOCK
Mid-18th Century
The circular enamelled dial with Arabic and Roman numerals and the movement signed 'NOEL BALTAZAR A PARIS' within an asymmetrical shaped case with acanthus and C-scroll framing flanked by a foliate garland and two oak leaf branches, with pierced sides, the backplate and an element to upper side of reverse of case later
32½ in. (82.5 cm.) high; 17¼ in. (44 cm.) wide
Provenance
The Late Sir Frank Fraser Darling, Shefford-Woodlands House, Newbury, Berkshire, thence by family descent, sold Christie's Edinburgh, 22 May 1996, lot 34 (£ 8.970).
Special notice
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Lot Essay

Noël Balthazar, maître horloger in 1717.

With its flower-festooned, serpentined and asymmetrical scrolls of Roman foliage entwined with oak, emblematic of hospitality, this grand cartel clock epitomises the Louis XV 'picturesque' style introduced by Juste-Aurele Meissonier (d. 1750) and relates to a design for a clock in his Oeuvre of 1736, see H. Ottomeyer/P. Pröschel et. al., Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, vol. I, p. 96, fig. 2a.

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