Blackened wood and gilt bronze CARTEL, the shock absorber decorated with a figure of the Renommée The dial with thirteen twenty-five enamelled plates on a gilt brass background, indicates the hours by Roman numerals, the minutes by Arabic numerals. Signed "Quoniam" and located in Paris on the dial and on the plate of the mechanism. Joseph Quoniam, master clockmaker in rue Séverin, active in 1745. Louis XV work with restored decoration. Height 91.5 cm, width 39.5 cm, depth 20 cm (accidents, cracks, repatinated decoration).

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