Live Auction 14963THE COLLECTOR: English and European Furniture, Works of Art & Ceramics & Silver
A REGENCE ORMOLU-MOUNTED AND BRASS-INLAID EBONY REGULATEUR
Lot 616

A REGENCE ORMOLU-MOUNTED AND BRASS-INLAID EBONY REGULATEUR

THE CASE CIRCA 1720, THE MOVEMENT DATED 1727, THE DIAL SIGNED 'THIOUT A PAIRS'/FECIT ET INVENIT', THE MAJORITY OF THE MOUNTS STAMPED WITH THE 'C' COURONNE POINÇON

Closed18 October 2017

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A REGENCE ORMOLU-MOUNTED AND BRASS-INLAID EBONY REGULATEUR
THE CASE CIRCA 1720, THE MOVEMENT DATED 1727, THE DIAL SIGNED 'THIOUT A PAIRS'/FECIT ET INVENIT', THE MAJORITY OF THE MOUNTS STAMPED WITH THE 'C' COURONNE POINÇON
90 in. (228.5 cm.) high, 18 ½ in. (47 cm.) wide, 8 ¾ in. (22 cm.) deep

Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 20 October 2006, lot 403.

Specialist note

Probably Antoine Thiout (d. 1761), who became maître in 1724, juré in 1742 and garde in 1769, and who was the horloger du duc d'Orléans from 1751.

The 'C' couronné poinçon was a tax mark employed on any alloy containing copper between March 1745 and February 1749.