Important cartel d’applique de style Louis XV d’après un modèle de Philippe Caffieri

In chased and gilded bronze, with a subject of Venus and Love or Day and Night, the violin-shaped case underlined by scrolls and foliate foliage, the white enamelled dial in the center of the composition, the chariot of Love at the top against a background of sunbeams evoking Dawn, Venus covered with a drapery symbolizing Night at the bottom. H: 105 - L: 64 cm Wear, one element detached, pendulum, keys and gong missing, as well as perhaps the putto's bow and arrows on the shock absorber. Related works : Similar models from the Louis XV period at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Musée Carnavalet, Paris Bibliography: P. Kjellberg, Encyclopédie de la pendule française du Moyen Age au XXe siècle, Paris, 1997, p.103, fig. C) H. Ottomeyer and P. Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, Die Bronzearbeiten des Spätbarock und Klassizismus, Band I, Munich, 1986, p.117, fig.2.5.11) Provenance : Relais de diligences, known as Relais de Poste, now the Hôtel Ricordeau.