A FRENCH LOUIS XV ORMOLU MOUNTED BOULLE BRACKET CLOCK AND BRACKET

A FRENCH LOUIS XV ORMOLU MOUNTED BOULLE BRACKET CLOCK AND BRACKET

BY BACQUET, PARIS, C.1750

the brass twin barrel movement with five tapered baluster pillars and an outside countwheel striking on a bell, the backplate signed 'Bacquet A Paris', with later anchor escapement regulated by a lenticular bob pendulum, the 10 inch circular twelve-piece cartouche numeral dial with concentric trellis bordered Rococo cartouche cast centre within a chapter ring with blue-on-white Roman hour numerals within Rococo borders and every minute numbered to the outer track, with blued steel hands over small enamel pendant panel inscribed 'BACQUET', the cut brass and brown shell marquetry decorated case with a surmount cast as a robed putto releasing a bird seated over a gadrooned panel-cast caddy to the concave-sided superstructure, with its original ogee-shaped wall bracket

84cm high, (the clock) 114cm high, 43cm wide, 21.5cm deep ( the clock on wall bracket )

Provenance

The Estate of a deceased Gentleman, purchased from Pelham Galleries, London, July 1966.