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LOUIS XV PENDULUM CLOCK ON CONSOLE WITH CHINOISERIES. Date: Around 1760-70. Maker/Designer: Clock case Balthazar Lieutaud, Paris. Dial Gerard, Metz. Technique: Fire-gilt bronze applications, coloured lacquer paintings, Enamel dial. Description: Curved console richly adorned with volute décor. High rectangular, curved corpus with corresponding applications. Console, case and top with Vernis-Martin-décor in the form of fine polychrome chinoiseries with gold lacquer on a dark green fond. Round dial consisting of twelve cartouches with Roman numerals and Arabic minuterie grouped around a round centrepiece. Square shaped 14-day pendulum movement with anchor escapement, thread suspension and half-hour and hour strike on an overhead bell. Measurement: Height incl. console approx.123cm, width 45cm. Mark: Dial inscribed. "Gerard Pere A Metz" (Metz, approx.1765, Loomes p.297). Case stamped on the back "B. Lieutaud" (Balthazar Lieutaud, Paris, 1720 - 1780). Enclosed: P&K, as well as key for the front door. Literature: - Kjellberg, Pierre: Le Mobilier Français Du XVIII Siècle, Paris 1989. Regarding Lieutaud see p.532f. - Tardy: La Pendule Française, vol.1, Paris 1949. One similar clock case by Lieutaud see p.159. Explanations to the Catalogue Voraussichtliche Versandkosten für dieses Lot: Absprache nach der Auktion. Estimated shipping costs for this lot: Arrangement after the auction.
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LOUIS XV PENDULUM CLOCK ON CONSOLE WITH CHINOISERIES. Date: Around 1760-70. Maker/Designer: Clock case Balthazar Lieutaud, Paris. Dial Gerard, Metz. Technique: Fire-gilt bronze applications, coloured lacquer paintings, Enamel dial. Description: Curved console richly adorned with volute décor. High rectangular, curved corpus with corresponding applications. Console, case and top with Vernis-Martin-décor in the form of fine polychrome chinoiseries with gold lacquer on a dark green fond. Round dial consisting of twelve cartouches with Roman numerals and Arabic minuterie grouped around a round centrepiece. Square shaped 14-day pendulum movement with anchor escapement, thread suspension and half-hour and hour strike on an overhead bell. Measurement: Height incl. console approx.123cm, width 45cm. Mark: Dial inscribed. "Gerard Pere A Metz" (Metz, approx.1765, Loomes p.297). Case stamped on the back "B. Lieutaud" (Balthazar Lieutaud, Paris, 1720 - 1780). Enclosed: P&K, as well as key for the front door. Literature: - Kjellberg, Pierre: Le Mobilier Français Du XVIII Siècle, Paris 1989. Regarding Lieutaud see p.532f. - Tardy: La Pendule Française, vol.1, Paris 1949. One similar clock case by Lieutaud see p.159. Explanations to the Catalogue Voraussichtliche Versandkosten für dieses Lot: Absprache nach der Auktion. Estimated shipping costs for this lot: Arrangement after the auction.
