A Louis XVI ormolu cartel clock - image-1

Lot 418 Dα

A Louis XVI ormolu cartel clock

Auction 1208 - overview Cologne
17.11.2022, 14:30 - Decorative Arts - Sculpture Bronze Furniture Textiles
Estimate: 2.500 € - 3.000 €
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A Louis XVI ormolu cartel clock

With white enamel dial and pierced gilt hands. 14-day running with half-hourly striking to a bell. The dial signed "Gille L'ainé A PARIS" H 81 cm.
Third quarter 18th C., design after Jean-Charles Delafosse, movement by Gille or Gilles l'aîné.

Literature

Cf. Ottomeyer/Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, vol. I, Munich 1986, illus. 3.8.1., for an identical example in Nymphenburg palace, also signed "Gille l'aîné".
For this maker see Tardy, Dictionnaire des horlogers français, Paris 3/1972, p. 256. The signature probably refers to Pierre Gilles l'aîné, who apprenticed under Pierre Le Roy and became a master himself in 1746.