Jerome Martinot

Jerome Martinot, Paris. Made circa 1700. Very fine, Louis XIV, ormolu-mounted tortoiseshell and brass Boulle marquetry hour and half-hour striking, pull-wound quarter-repeating bracket clock with matching bracket. Ormolu with white enamelled cartouches with radial blue Roman numerals, outer minutes with every minute numbered, chased and engraved foliate scroll center, gilt bronze mask below decorated with two sphinxes and foliate scrolls. Well-pierced blued steel hands. Rectangular, 140 x 130 mm, brass, verge escapement, steel rod pendulum with silk suspension, count wheel on the back plate, pullrepeat mechanism, striking and repeating on three bells with four hammers. Dial, mask and movement signed. Dim. Height 65 cm (with bracket 91cm), bracket width 36 cm. Notes Jerome Martinot From the famous Martinot dynasty of clockmakers, he was born in 1671 and became Horloger du Roi in 1689, and Horloger du Palais, he died in 1725.