Live Auction 14193Robert de Balkany Rome & the Côte d'Azur
A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED, STAINED-HORN AND TORTOISESHELL 'BOULLE' MARQUETRY STRIKING MANTEL CLOCK
Lot 620

A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED, STAINED-HORN AND TORTOISESHELL 'BOULLE' MARQUETRY STRIKING MANTEL CLOCK

19TH CENTURY, INCORPORATING EARLIER ELEMENTS, AFTER THE MODEL BY ANDRE-CHARLES BOULLE

Closed23 March 2017

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GBP 8,750

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A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED, STAINED-HORN AND TORTOISESHELL 'BOULLE' MARQUETRY STRIKING MANTEL CLOCK
19TH CENTURY, INCORPORATING EARLIER ELEMENTS, AFTER THE MODEL BY ANDRE-CHARLES BOULLE
The case surmounted by a putto and with the winged Father Time figure below, the dial with associated twin barrel movement with later half dead-beat escapement, countwheel strike to bell
37 ½ in. (95.3 cm.) high; 18 ½ in. (47 cm.) wide; 11 in. (28 cm.) deep

Specialist note

This André-Charles Boulle clock and pedestal design 'Pendule et sa Gaîne' was originally made in the 1690's for Nicolas Desmarets, a nephew of Colbert. Two examples are in the Wallace Collection. (P. Hughes, French Eighteenth-Century Clocks and Barometers in the Wallace Collection, London, 1994, pp. 18-19.)