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An early Louis XV giltwood cartel clock circa 1730
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
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Description
- height 39 1/4 in.
- 100 cm
with later white enamelled dial, the striking movement with backplate inscribed Guillme Gille A Paris within an elaborately carved case surmounted by a figure holding a lyre, the sides with torsos and putti amidst palm fronds, the lower part with four horses emerging from cloud banks.
Provenance
Maurice Segoura, Paris
Acquired from the above, 1984
Literature
P. Kjellberg, Encyclopédie de la pendule Française, Paris, 1997, p. 104, fig. D.
Hachette, French Art of the 18th Century, 1957, p. 153, fig. F.