A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY REGULATEUR (REGULATEUR AU TOURNESOL)
THE CASE DESIGNED BY GILLES-PAUL CAUVET, CIRCA 1766, ATTRIBUTED TO NICOLAS PETIT, THE MOUNTS PROBABLY SUPPLIED BY ETIENNE MARTINCOURT, THE MOVEMENT BY LEPAUTE
The drum case with sunflower and foliate cresting and ribbon-tied laurel sprig above the lyre-shaped trunk, the backboard mirrored, the glazed apertures with beaded borders, the lower section with a gilt and blue vernis Martin panel with four figures facing a globe representing the four Continents (probably redecorated), the spreading plinth base with boldly cast acanthus leaves, the white enamel dial with Arabic hours and ten minute markers, inscribed 'Le Paute A Paris / HGER. du Roy', pierced gilt-brass hour and minute hands and blued steel seconds hand, the four pillar movement with three wheels and pin wheel escsapement, engraved to the backplate 'Lepaute a Paris', suspended from the backplate via a single hook and with four steady feet, the rope drive with brass cased weight and counterweight, compensated nine-bar brass and steel pendulum
80 in. (203.2 cm.) high; 24 1/2 (62.2 cm.) wide; 9 3/4 in. (24.7 cm.) deep
A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY REGULATEUR (REGULATEUR AU TOURNESOL)
THE CASE DESIGNED BY GILLES-PAUL CAUVET, CIRCA 1766, ATTRIBUTED TO NICOLAS PETIT, THE MOUNTS PROBABLY SUPPLIED BY ETIENNE MARTINCOURT, THE MOVEMENT BY LEPAUTE
The drum case with sunflower and foliate cresting and ribbon-tied laurel sprig above the lyre-shaped trunk, the backboard mirrored, the glazed apertures with beaded borders, the lower section with a gilt and blue vernis Martin panel with four figures facing a globe representing the four Continents (probably redecorated), the spreading plinth base with boldly cast acanthus leaves, the white enamel dial with Arabic hours and ten minute markers, inscribed 'Le Paute A Paris / HGER. du Roy', pierced gilt-brass hour and minute hands and blued steel seconds hand, the four pillar movement with three wheels and pin wheel escsapement, engraved to the backplate 'Lepaute a Paris', suspended from the backplate via a single hook and with four steady feet, the rope drive with brass cased weight and counterweight, compensated nine-bar brass and steel pendulum
80 in. (203.2 cm.) high; 24 1/2 (62.2 cm.) wide; 9 3/4 in. (24.7 cm.) deep
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