Live Auction 2808European Furniture, Clocks, Sculpture and Works of Art
A LARGE GILT-BRONZE MOUNTED, TORTOISESHELL AND BOULLE MARQUETRY STRIKING BRACKET CLOCK 'AUX CHEVAUX'
Lot 645

A LARGE GILT-BRONZE MOUNTED, TORTOISESHELL AND BOULLE MARQUETRY STRIKING BRACKET CLOCK 'AUX CHEVAUX'

LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY, AFTER THE DESIGN BY LESCURE

Closed16 December 2008

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EUR 5,625

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A LARGE GILT-BRONZE MOUNTED, TORTOISESHELL AND BOULLE MARQUETRY STRIKING BRACKET CLOCK 'AUX CHEVAUX'
LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY, AFTER THE DESIGN BY LESCURE
The case of typical form, the cast dial with enamel Roman chapters, the door mounted with a chariot and two horses, the feet modelled as horses, on a waved plinth, the twin barrel movement with brocot type suspension, countwheel strike on gong, the backplate stamped 3072; Apollo mask pendulum, stamped 3073
114 cm. high overall

Specialist note

Lescure, cabinet-maker working in Paris around 1910 who specialized in the 'aux chevaux' type clocks.
A related model by Lescure is illustrated in Tardy, French Clocks, Volume I, Paris, 1981, p. 157. A related clock was sold at Christie's Amsterdam, 3 April 2007, lot 454.