175,000 HKD
GAUDRON LOUIS XIV BOULLE CLOCK Gaudron A Paris. Made circa 1700 and later. Very fine, Louis XIV, 8-day going, hour and half-hour striking, ormolu- mounted tortoiseshell and brass Boulle marquetry bracket clock. Regence form with arched cornice surmounted by an boulle and ormolu foliate cresting, ormolu border and four urn finials, above, a lambrequin cornice, the body of the case glazed on three sides, the canted corners with mask and scroll mounts, raised on a scroll base with a mask mount in the center, on ormolu toupie feet; the whole finely veneered in marquetry in brass on grounds of red tortoiseshell forming foliate scrolls, foliate corner mounts, ormolu finial of a winged figure of Victory in classical drapery sounding her trumpet and holding aloft a palm frond. Ormolu with white enameled cartouches, radial Roman numerals, outer minutes with every minute numbered, chased and engraved center with a profile portrait of Louis XIV flanked by military trophies above a crowned globe, gilt bronze mask below decorated with two female figures of Flora and Urania flanking a winged cherub holding a pair of dividers over a globe. Well-pierced blued steel hands. Of later date, rectangular, brass, two spring barrels for the going and striking trains, anchor escapement, steel rod brass- bob pendulum with spring suspension, rack striking on a bell mounted on the top of the case. Notes Dial signed. DIM. 92 x 48.5 x 16 cm. The movement of the present clock was probably fitted in t Read more…
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2016-03-19
