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Lot 1803 Dα

A Parisian ormolu cartel clock

Auction 1196 - overview Cologne
20.05.2022, 10:00 - Decorative Arts incl. Highly Important Mortars the Schwarzach Collection Part IV.
Estimate: 1.200 € - 1.500 €
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A Parisian ormolu cartel clock

Gilt bronze clock with white enamel dial, pierced gilt handles and replaced textile lining. With a pendulum movement converted to verge escapement with spring suspension of the pendulum. Signed on the dial "FOULLET A PARIS". Re-gilt, with cracks to the reverse. H 41, W 19.5 cm.
Around 1770.

Provenance

Private collection, Lower Rhine Region.

Literature

For more on this clockmaker see Tardy, Dictionnaire des horlogers français, Paris 3/1972, p. 236 (presumably identical to the cabinetmaker Antoine Foullet, who became a master in 1749 and died in 1775).