CARTEL AND ITS APPLIQUE CONSOLE FROM THE LOUIS XV PERIOD Stamped by Nicolas Jean Marchand In tortoiseshell veneer on a brass background, chased and gilt bronze ornamentation, the dial in white enamel of thirteen sections, Roman numerals for the hours, Arabic for the minutes, cut-out iron hands, the rectangular movement with two toothed barrels, horizontal verge escapement, simple balance wheel, silk thread suspension, count wheel outside, the glass door decorated with two putti, one holding an hourglass, the other a torch with a rooster next to it, the hat surmounted by a child seated on a sphere, the matching lamp-post with appliques, in the form of Amerindian and grotesque masks, the dial and movement signed 'Gedeon Duval à Paris', the lamp-post stamped MARCHAND Total height : 131 cm (51 ½ in.) l. 43 cm (17 in.) P. 21 cm (8 ¼ in.) Gédéon Duval, master clockmaker in 1746 Nicolas Jean Marchand, received master around 1735 A Louis XV gilt-bronze mounted, tortoiseshell and brass inlaid cartel and its wall-bracket, the dial and the movement signed by Gédéon Duval, the case stamped by Nicolas Jean Marchand * Information for buyers : For an exit of the EU, a Citès of re-export can be necessary, this one being with the load of the future purchaser. * Information to buyers : For an exit from the EU, a Citès re-export certificate will be necessary, at the buyer's expense.