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Fireplace clock "à l'Eléfant" Paris, Louis XV, probably mid 18th century, Gille L'Ainé Gilded bronze case, partly burnished. On a terrain base stands a trumpeting elephant carrying the clock drum with a putto as crowning. Enamel dial with Roman and Arabic numerals. 8-day movement. Pendulum with thread suspension. 1/2 hour strike mechanism on a bell. Dial and brass plate marked "Gille L'Ainé a Paris". Key. Dial with hairline cracks. 42 x 30 x 16 cm. Provenance: Nagel, auction 17-18.09.1993, lot 1212. - North German private collection. Cf. Tardy, La Pendule Française. Paris 1975. vol. I. p. 170 ff. - Ottomeyer, Hans, Pröschel, Peter, Vergoldete Bronzen. Munich 1986, vol. I, fig. 2.8.5.
munich, Germany
