A Louis XV ormolu cartel clock circa 1750, the dial signed Charles Voisin a Paris, movement signed Charles Voisin Paris

Frank Partridge, London

Enamel with small chips mostly around winding hole; fine cracks; numerals with some rubbing; ormolu with rubbing but in good condition; one finger of man with restored break. Back plate is with red numbers 2362. One branch to the proper left side possibly associated or later.
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This model was produced primarily between the years of 1745-1749, as evidenced by the surviving examples marked with the “C” couronné poinçon. Those examples include clocks sold Drouot-Montaigne, April 29, 1998, lot 33; Christie's Geneva, May 8, 1973, lot 17; Sotheby's London, April 29, 1965, lot 46A. Others include a model signed Fortin à Paris illustrated in Hans Ottomeyer and Peter Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, vol. 1, Munich, 1986, pg. 119; another from the Musée des Arts Décoratifs signed Autrey à Paris  illustrated in Tardy, French Clocks, Paris, 1981, pg. 313; one signed Pierre Le Roy sold Christie’s New York, October 19, 2007, lot 205.
A clock of this model may be seen in the watercolor by Olaf Fridsberg (1728-1795) showing the Salon de la Comtesse Ulla Tessin, now in the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, see Alain Gruber, L'art décoratif en Europe, Classique et Baroque, Paris, 1992, p. 308.