A Louis XVI style gilt-bronze mounted mahogany, kingwood and harewood Regulateur de Parquet after the celebrated model by J. H Riesener Paris, circa 1890

the movement stamped with the Vicenti seal, the carcass bearing the stamp F. LINKE twice



 

Many bronzes will need to be tightened back to the carcass. The longcase clock is a bit wobbly and will also need to be tightened back to its base. Overall in fair condition with the usual nicks, dents and scratches to veneers. Some minute losses to veneer.
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The present régulateur de parquet is a copy of the model attributed to Jean-Henri Riesener (reçu Maître en 1768), executed in 1785, and now in the permanent collection of the Musée du Louvre. This was one of the most popular of the eighteenth century models admired and copied by the finest cabinetmakers of the late nineteenth century. Interestingly, a barometer version of the clock, also in the Louvre, was made by the cabinetmaker Guillaume Grohé circa 1860, whose work was described at the 1867 Exposition Universelle as 'supéieurs à ceux de Riesener et Gouthière'. François Linke also made model, archive number 852.