A very fine ormolu musical clock, Daniel Vaucher, Paris, the case by Robert Osmond, circa 1770

5¾-inch enamel dial signed Vauchez A Paris, finely pierced and engraved hands, similarly signed bell striking movement with outside count wheel, pin wheel escapement with silk suspension, the boldly cast urn case signed to the rear Osmond, surmounted by a pineapple finial above scroll handles and laurel swags, flanked by two putto seated on the rectangular base with trellis panels on reeded bun feet and containing the musical movement, triggered at each hour by the clock and playing one of twelve tunes on a carillon of eleven bells with eighteen hammers

Dial in good condition. Clock movement is complete, reasonably clean and looks as though it would run though not tested at time of cataloguing. Musical movement is reasonably clean and was running at time of cataloguing. Case is in generally good original condition retaining the original gilding but with some rubbing to corners and edges. With pendulum and two winders.
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Daniel Vauchez became a master clockmaker in 1767 and is recorded as working in Rue du Petit Lion St-Sauveur between 1769 and 1790. Robert Osmond (1711-1789) worked in Paris as a maker of fine ormolu clock cases. Osmond is known to have supplied cases to Vauchez and other clockmakers.

A similar unsigned clock case on a marble plinth and with a movement by Jean-Baptiste DuTertre was sold in these rooms on 2nd December 2008, Lot 154.