CHARLES DU TERTRE, PARIS. LAST QUARTER 18TH CENTURY. THE CASE BY ROBERT OSMOND

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A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU STRIKING MANTEL CLOCK
CHARLES DU TERTRE, PARIS. LAST QUARTER 18TH CENTURY. THE CASE BY ROBERT OSMOND
The case in the form of a fluted column surmounted by an urn, berried-laurel bezel and rim above a square plinth stamped OSMOND, the white enamel dial inscribed CH.les DU TERTRE/A PARIS, pierced ormolu hands, eight day twin barrel movement with countwheel strike on bell; pendulum
35.5 cm. high

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Lot Essay

Charles Du Tertre, maître-horloger in 1758.

A clock of identical design by Robert Osmond is illustrated in P. Kjellberg, Encyclopédie De La Pendule Française du Moyen Age au XXe Siècle, Paris, 1997, pp. 185. A related clock is also illustrated in P. Kjellberg, op cit, p. 231. Design drawings of this type of clock by Osmond can be found in his Livre de dessins at the Bibliothèque d'art et archéologie in Paris.

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