A LOUIS XV ORMOLU QUARTER-STRIKING MANTEL CLOCK
Lot 187

A LOUIS XV ORMOLU QUARTER-STRIKING MANTEL CLOCK

JEAN BAPTISTE BAILLON, PARIS, MID-18TH CENTURY, NO. 3334

Closed10 April 2019

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GBP 11,250

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A LOUIS XV ORMOLU QUARTER-STRIKING MANTEL CLOCK
JEAN BAPTISTE BAILLON, PARIS, MID-18TH CENTURY, NO. 3334
The dial signed ‘JN. BAPTISTE / BAILLON’, the three-train movement with silk suspension and countwheel strike to hour bell, striking the quarters to a smaller bell, the backplate engraved ‘J. B. Baillon A Paris / No. 3334’, the reverse to dial inscribed 'Martinière' and dated '1753', with later bezel
21 ¼ in. (54 cm.) high; 12 ½ in. (31.8 cm.) wide; 6 ¾ in. (17 cm.) deep

Specialist note

Jean Baptiste Albert Baillon (I) (1727-1772), clock maker to Queen Marie Leczinska and later, to Marie Antoinette.