Description
Boulle marquetry HANGER decorated with acanthus scrolls, flowering vases and engraved brass checkerboard on brown tortoiseshell backgrounds. It is topped with a figure of "Renommée". The front is adorned with a draped woman, a stork and a palmette. It stands on espagnolette feet. The bronze dial features twelve enameled cartouches indicating the hours in Roman numerals. It is decorated with a mask, scrolls and festoons. The mechanism plate is signed: Bourdeau Paris. With its balance wheel and stamp hammer. Paris. Louis XIV period Height. approx. 100 cm Worn gilding. Lifts and missing decorations. Parts detached. Reverse marquetry on the rear leaf. Expert: Stéphane PEPE
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Boulle marquetry HANGER decorated with acanthus scrolls, flowering vases and engraved brass checkerboard on brown tortoiseshell backgrounds. It is topped with a figure of "Renommée". The front is adorned with a draped woman, a stork and a palmette. It stands on espagnolette feet. The bronze dial features twelve enameled cartouches indicating the hours in Roman numerals. It is decorated with a mask, scrolls and festoons. The mechanism plate is signed: Bourdeau Paris. With its balance wheel and stamp hammer. Paris. Louis XIV period Height. approx. 100 cm Worn gilding. Lifts and missing decorations. Parts detached. Reverse marquetry on the rear leaf. Expert: Stéphane PEPE
