69,000 CHF
“Love The Conqueror” Gaultier a Paris. Made circa 1750. Very fine and rare, weight driven, eight-day going kingwood marquetry and oyster veneered ormolu mounted longcase clock with seconds-beating center seconds, hour and half-hour striking and pin-wheel escapement. By Nicolas-Jean Marchand, of waisted and bombé form, marquetry and oyster veneered with kingwood, bombé door with oval lenticle and lock, surmounted by a gilt bronze cresting representing Love the Conqueror - the kneeling figure holding cupid aloft, mounted throughout with foliate gilt-bronze mounts, the mount below the dial engraved with the coat of arms of a Vicomte with clasped hands and three flowers below a coronet. Cast and chased gilt bronze with white enamel cartouches, blue radial Roman numerals and outer Arabic five minute numerals, inner white enamel signature plate. Pierced and chased “Louis XV” gilt brass hands and blued steel center seconds hand. 14 x 14 cm, gilt brass, with five pillars (four vase-shaped), weight-driven going train with brass-cased weight, pin-wheel escapement, striking train with spring barrel, numbered outside countwheel striking on a bell mounted above the movement, steel rod pendulum with cast gilt bronze flower bob. Dial and movement signed Gaultier a Paris. Case stamped Marchand. Dim. 244 cm. High; 55 cm. Wide; 35 cm. Deep. Notes Nicolas-Jean Marchand A Parisian cabinet maker born circa 1697. He became a Master before 1738 and settled in the rue Saint-Nicolas, where had
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2005-11-13
