Lot Essay
Probably Pierre Gaudron (d. 1745), who became maître horloger in 1695 and was horloger to the duc d'Orléans.
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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE CANADIAN COLLECTION
(LOT 213)
A REGENCE ORMOLU-MOUNTED AND BRASS-INLAID TORTOISESHELL BOULLE MARQUETRY BRACKET CLOCK**
CIRCA 1720, THE BRACKET ASSOCIATED, THE DIAL SIGNED 'GAUDRON'
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A REGENCE ORMOLU-MOUNTED AND BRASS-INLAID TORTOISESHELL BOULLE MARQUETRY BRACKET CLOCK**
CIRCA 1720, THE BRACKET ASSOCIATED, THE DIAL SIGNED 'GAUDRON'
The circular ormolu dial with individual white enamel Roman cartouche chapters and white enamel center, original cut steel hands, signed 'Gaudron' on an enamel plaque below, the movement with rectangular plates joined by six vase-shaped back-pinned pillars, with three barrels and verge escapement with silk suspension, with calibrated countwheels for hours and quarters, with hour strike on one bell and quarters on two further bells, the back plate signed 'Gaudron a/Paris', the door with two youths emblematic of time, within a bell-shaped case with trellis and foliate trailing inlay, to the top with a patera cabochon and to the hipped angles with figures emblematic of the Seasons on C-scroll feet, centered by a circular medallion, surmounted by a crest with dog-mounts to the angles and a female-figure carried by an eagle as finial, on a bracket with C-scroll and foliate inlay and foliate female's masks to the angles, the boss with a male figure's mask above the flower-head filled trellis panel and a foliate boss, the movement signed 'Gaudron A Paris', top section with later angle mounts and foot beneath eagle later
55½ in. (141 cm.) high
CIRCA 1720, THE BRACKET ASSOCIATED, THE DIAL SIGNED 'GAUDRON'
The circular ormolu dial with individual white enamel Roman cartouche chapters and white enamel center, original cut steel hands, signed 'Gaudron' on an enamel plaque below, the movement with rectangular plates joined by six vase-shaped back-pinned pillars, with three barrels and verge escapement with silk suspension, with calibrated countwheels for hours and quarters, with hour strike on one bell and quarters on two further bells, the back plate signed 'Gaudron a/Paris', the door with two youths emblematic of time, within a bell-shaped case with trellis and foliate trailing inlay, to the top with a patera cabochon and to the hipped angles with figures emblematic of the Seasons on C-scroll feet, centered by a circular medallion, surmounted by a crest with dog-mounts to the angles and a female-figure carried by an eagle as finial, on a bracket with C-scroll and foliate inlay and foliate female's masks to the angles, the boss with a male figure's mask above the flower-head filled trellis panel and a foliate boss, the movement signed 'Gaudron A Paris', top section with later angle mounts and foot beneath eagle later
55½ in. (141 cm.) high