Lot 50
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A boulle bracket clock and associated bracket, Nicolas Roussel, French, circa 1740

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Description

  • Nicolas Roussel
  • Clock: 99cm. 39in; Bracket 38cm. 15in. high
12-inch twenty-five piece enamel cartouche dial signed Nlas Roussel, A Paris, similarly signed rectangular plated movement with five knopped pillars, verge escapement with silk suspension and bell striking with outside numbered countwheel, the waisted case veneered with tortoiseshell inlaid with brass, outlined with gilt-brass foliate mounts, the cresting surmounted by a figure carrying a torch and a goddess with two putti on the lower door edge, the similar but associated wall bracket with mask corner mounts