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A LOUIS XV BOULLE TORTOISESHELL STRIKING BRACKET CLOCK, ON WALL BRACKET
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A LOUIS XV BOULLE TORTOISESHELL STRIKING BRACKET CLOCK, ON WALL BRACKET

L. TALLON, PARIS, SECOND QUARTER 18TH CENTURY

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A LOUIS XV BOULLE TORTOISESHELL STRIKING BRACKET CLOCK, ON WALL BRACKET
L. TALLON, PARIS, SECOND QUARTER 18TH CENTURY
The cast dial with individual white enamel Roman cartouche chapters, blued steel hands, the twin barrel movement with rectangular plates joined by five vase-shaped and back-pinned pillars, verge escapement with silk suspension and calibrated countwheel strike on bell, signed L. Fallon Paris; pendulum, key
41 in. (104 cm.) high, over bracket
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Lot Essay

Designed in the Louis Quatorze Roman’ fashion promoted by Andre-Charles Boulle, the Cupid-crowned clock celebrates the sun deity Apollo and the Spring season, with a bas-relief of Proserpine and Pluto inspired by Ovid’s, Metamorphoses. The Paris clockmaker Tallon was elected Maitre in 1737.

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