A fire-gilt bronze Louis XVI period cartel clock - image-1

Lot 798 Dα

A fire-gilt bronze Louis XVI period cartel clock

Auction 1028 - overview Cologne
16.05.2014, 14:00 - Decorative Arts III
Estimate: 3.000 € - 4.000 €
Result: 4.880 € (incl. premium)

A fire-gilt bronze Louis XVI period cartel clock

Eight-day pendulum movement with spindle and half hour strike to a bell. Signed to the dial PARQUET A DIEPPE: Re-gilt, the dial slightly damaged and repaired around the winding holes. H 81, W 41, D 14 cm.
The case Paris, attributed to Jean-Charles Delafosse, the movement Dieppe, ca. 1770 - 80.

Literature

For the case cf. Ottomeyer / Pröschel, vol. I, Munich 1986, no. 3.8.6., describing the same cartel clock in Nymphenburg castle with a movement by Gille l´aîné.