A Louis XVI style gilt-bronze mounted mahogany regulateur after the model by Jean-Henri Riesener circa 1900

This clock is a copy of the celebrated model made circa 1785, attributed to Jean-Henri Riesener,now in the permanent collection on the Musée du Louvre (cat. C.Dr., No 185).

With André-Charles Boulle and Charles Cressent, Riesener was one of the three greatest French ébénistes of the 18th century. As a young man he entered the workshop of Jean-François Oeben (maître in 1761 but previously active as an ébéniste du Roi), eventually taking over the workshop after Oeben's death in 1763, and marrying his widow some four years later. He is renowned for completing the famous bureau du Roi Louis XV, designed and started by Oeben and made with the collaboration of another young apprentice in the workshop, Jean-François Leleu.