A Louis XV ormolu-mounted Boulle marquetry bracket clock mid 18th century, stamped Ant. Foullet JME

the ormolu dial with white enamel reserves for hours and minutes, signed on the dial Herbault à Paris, and on the backplate Herbault à Paris, No. 171, the cartouche shaped case surmounted by a figure of Eros, fitted all around with ormolu mounts cast with flower-heads and foliage, veneered in contre-partie Boulle marquetry in brass, tortoiseshell and stained horn; raised on a tapered bracket. Some mounts associated.

Collection of Countess Annesley, sold, Sotheby Parke Bernet, March 17-18, 1978, lot 210

Antoine Foullet (d.1775) was the father of the highly regarded ébéniste Pierre-Antoine Foullet.   From his workshop on rue du Faubourg Saint-Antoine he produced not only clock cases, but also case furniture, such as a transitional commode in the National Museum in Stockholm.  His designs for clock cases dated c. 1770 are in the Bibliothèque Doucet in Paris.  A bracket clock of similar overall design and also veneered in brass with polychrome flowers in horn, made by Foullet with an important mechanism by Jacquet Droz, was offered, Sotheby's, London, December 9, 1994, lot 153.