Régulateur de parquet en placage de bois de rose et d'amarante et monture de bronze doré d'époque Louis XVI, vers 1780, attribué à Balthazar Lieutaud, le cadran signé ROBIN A PARIS

la caisse rectangulaire sommée d'une sphère armillaire, la porte munie d'un cadran d'un baromètre ; (aiguille et mouvement manquants à ce dernier)

Illustration is accurate. Good overall condition. The veneer is slightly lifting in a few places and there are some losses to the veneer. The barometer dial has been probably added in a later period as there is no trace of barometer movement. The chasing of the mounts is very nice. Dial with central equation dial marked Tems Vray, centre seconds, minute hand indicating Mean and Solar time, (tail damaged). Timepiece movement with five-wheel train (probably month-going but not checked), pin wheel escapement with maintaining power, beat adjustment on the crutch, signed on the backplate as the dial. Complete but very dirty and needs full service and overhaul. With pendulum (not inspected). No winder nor weight.
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La caisse de ce régulateur peut être atribuée à l’ébéniste Balthazar Lieutaud (vers 1720-1780), reçu maître en 1749 et établi rue de la Pelleterie sur l’Île de la Cité. Il est connu pour avoir produit des caisses de régulateurs dans le style néoclassique entre 1765 et 1770. Les modèles les plus connus de ces caisses sont ceux exécutés en 1767 et qui sont conservés au château de Versailles et à la Frick collection de New York, Les bronzes de ce dernier ainsi que ceux d’un modèle de la Wallace Collection sont comparables aux nôtres et sont illustrés dans A. Pradère, Les Grands Ebénistes Français, 1989, p. 290 ill.. 321 et 322. Un autre comparable par Lieutaud aussi se trouve au Hillwood Museum de Washington et illustré dans French Furniture from the Collection of Hillwood Museum and Gardens, 2002, p. 34, ill. 13. Enfin, un dernier avec un mouvement de Robert Robin est conservé au Victoria and Albert Museum de Londres (illustré dans Tardy, French Clocks, Vol. 2, Paris, 1949, p. 160).