A Louis XIV ormolu cartel clock attributed to André-Charles Boulle circa 1710, the dial signed Jean Baptiste Baillon, the movement signed J. Bte. Baillon A Paris

Jacques Perrin, Paris

Pierre Kjellberg, Encyclopédie de la pendule française, Paris, 1997, p. 90

Dial with fine cracks to enamel. Small chips to enamel around winding hole and restored loss at "VI." Ormolu with minor oxidation and surface dirt in isolated areas on front. In good condition.
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There are two known eighteenth-century references to clocks which may correspond to this model. The first is recorded in the Bedroom of Paris de Montmartel (died in 1766). The second from the sale of the collection of the Comte de Luc, the illegitimate son of Louis XIV, (December 22, 1777, lot 49) not only gives a detailed description but also gives an attribution to Boulle: la boite de Boule, de bronze doré, en cartel represantant une lyre, à tête de belier sur chaque angle de haut… A clock of this model, attributed to Boulle is in the J. Paul Getty Museum, see G. Wilson et al., European Clocks in the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 1996, pp. 10-13. Others are in the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Museé des Arts Décoratifs, Paris. A clock of this model, the maker of the movement not given, was sold by the Comte de Choiseul-Praslin in Paris on March 12, 1866, lot 121.