A LOUIS XVI STYLE GILT BRONZE MOUNTED AMARANTH, STAINED SATINWOOD AND KINGWOOD TRELLIS PARQUETRY LONG CASE CLOCK AFTER THE CELEBRATED MODEL BY JEAN-HENRI RIESENER Paris, Late 19th/early 20th century

the later dial inscribed Girbelin/Paris

Includes a pendulum. Please note that the movement has not been checked for functionality. However, the movement is complete and may be put into a working state by a professional horologist. Tarnishing to gilt bronze. The two flower garlands flanking the dial are most probably later replacements. Some visible oxidation points to bronze in places. The carcass with the usual scratches, nicks and dents consistent with age and use. The secondhand is broken. The paw foot of the proper right backhand side is a carved wooden replacement, and not in bronze as the three other feet.
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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.