Lot 1526 D α

A Parisian Louis XV cartel clock

Auction 1174 - overview Cologne
04.06.2021, 12:00 - Decorative Arts
Estimate: 2.000 € - 3.000 €
Result: 2.375 € (incl. premium)

A Parisian Louis XV cartel clock

Ormolu clock with glazed white enamel dial and replaced textile lining. Rectangular pendulum movement with half-hourly striking on a gong and anchor escapement with thread suspension. Marked in capital letters on the dial and engraved on the plate “Denis Maßon Aparis”. Some smaller bronze mountings lost. H 65 cm.
Denis Masson (master in 1746).

Literature

For this maker see Tardy, Dictionnaire des horlogers français, Paris 1972, p. 446.
For this bronze cf. The cartel by Jean Joseph de Saint-Germain in Ottomeyer/Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, vol. I, Munich 1986, illus. 2.5.7. f.