BY JULIEN LE ROI, CIRCA 1745-49

細節

A LOUIS XV ORMOLU QUARTER REPEATING CARTEL TIMEPIECE
BY JULIEN LE ROI, CIRCA 1745-49
The foliate and c-scroll case surmounted by two doves with a winged cherub to the apron, the circular enamel dial signed 'Julien Le Roi', the brass movement stamped 'Julien le Roy, Paris', the single barrel movement with verge escapement, rack and snail on the backplate for quarter repeat, with repeat signature movement, the rear of the dial inscribed 'a.n./martiniere/1745/P.ner Du Roy', stamped once with the 'C couronné poinçon', with a circular paper label 'ACCORSI PIETRO ANTICHITA TORINO VIA PO. 55', with a pendulum and key
30 in. (46 cm) high

來源

Acquired from Pietro Accorsi, Turin, Italy.

注意事項

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拍品專文

The 'C' couronné poicon was a tax mark employed on any alloy containing copper between March 1745 and February 1749.

Julien LeRoy, maître in 1713, horloger ordinaire du Roi, flourished until 1759.

The picturesque flower-festooned clock is framed in water-scalloped reeds borne by Cupid, and celebrates Love's dominion with its triumphal arched pediment providing a trellised arbour for the celestial doves of the nature-deity Venus. A trophy of Cupid's weapons surmounts another clock of this model, which also bears the name of Julien Le Roy (d.1759), who was elected maître in 1713 as well as the crowned 'C' tax-brand in use in during the later 1740s (sold Christie's London, April 1965 lot 34).

A variant of this model, with movement by Denis Masson à Paris, is illustrated in P. Kjellberg, La Pendule Française, Paris, 1997, p.100, fig.d.