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Lot Essay
Jean-Pierre Tavernier, maître in 1746.
The clock-case cartouche, with its flower-festooned serpentined and asymetrical ribbon-scrolls of Roman foliage entwined with oak, emblematic of hospitality, epitomises the Louis XV 'picturesque' style introduced by Juste-Aurèle Meissonier (d.1750) and relates to a wall-panel clock illustrated in G. Huquier's publication of his Oeuvres.
An identical clock, the movement by Fortin à Paris, was sold by Baroness von Harinxma thoe Slooten-Scheiius De Merthenberg Arnhem, Christies Amsterdam, 20/21 December 1990, lot 165, while another signed Noel Baltazard (d.1786), was sold at Christie's Edinburgh, 23 May 1996, lot 34.
The clock-case cartouche, with its flower-festooned serpentined and asymetrical ribbon-scrolls of Roman foliage entwined with oak, emblematic of hospitality, epitomises the Louis XV 'picturesque' style introduced by Juste-Aurèle Meissonier (d.1750) and relates to a wall-panel clock illustrated in G. Huquier's publication of his Oeuvres.
An identical clock, the movement by Fortin à Paris, was sold by Baroness von Harinxma thoe Slooten-Scheiius De Merthenberg Arnhem, Christies Amsterdam, 20/21 December 1990, lot 165, while another signed Noel Baltazard (d.1786), was sold at Christie's Edinburgh, 23 May 1996, lot 34.