Live Auction 1186The Collection of Professor Sir Albert Richardson, P.R.A.
A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU AND WHITE MARBLE STRIKING MANTEL CLOCK
Lot 68

A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU AND WHITE MARBLE STRIKING MANTEL CLOCK

DAUTEL, PARIS, LATE 18TH CENTURY

Closed19 September 2013

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GBP 2,750

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A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU AND WHITE MARBLE STRIKING MANTEL CLOCK
DAUTEL, PARIS, LATE 18TH CENTURY
CASE: the finial supported by beaded frame DIAL: the white enamel dial signed Dautel A PARIS MOVEMENT: the twin barrel movement with recoil anchor escapement, silk suspension and count wheel strike to bell, with pendulum
17¼ in. (43.8 cm.) high; 11½ in. (29.2 cm.) wide; 4¾ in. (12 cm.) deep

Specialist note

There are three Dautels listed in Tardy's Dictionnaire des Horlogers Français, Paris: Claude-Aimé-François Dautel who was working in Paris on Rue de Bucy, another who worked in Paris from 1785-1825, and a third working from Rue de Thionville from 1800-1810 and then in Place Dauphine from 1820.