Y A FRENCH LOUIS XV ORMOLU MOUNTED BOULLE BRACKET CLOCK WITH...

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£1,500 - £2,000

Y A FRENCH LOUIS XV ORMOLU MOUNTED BOULLE BRACKET CLOCK WITH WALL BRACKET EN SUITEBACQUET, PARIS, CIRC 1750The twin going barrel outside countwheel bell striking movement with five tapered baluster pillars pinned through the backplate signed Bacquet AParis to lower margin, with later anchor escapement regulated by lenticular bob pendulum, the 10 inch circular twelve-piece cartouche numeral dial with concentric trellis bordered rococo cartouche cast centre within chapter ring with blue-on-white Roman hour numerals within rococo borders and every minute numbered to the outer track, with blued steel hand over small enamel pendant panel inscribed BACQUET, the cut brass and brown shell marquetry decorated case with surmount cast as a robed putto releasing a bird seated over a gadroon panel-cast caddy to the concave-sided superstructure veneered with leafy scroll decoration and applied with foliate mounts to angles, over rococo scroll decorated leaf cast arched cornice centred with a palmette, the front with brass-framed arched glazed door enclosing marquetry decorated floor and back panel to interior and incorporating cast panel featuring a Classical muse with attendants to apron, the surround decorated with leafy scrolls within line border, the sides with recessed arched windows within leaf cast surrounds over hipped swollen base sections, on leafy scroll cast feet with foliate apron between; set on original ogee-shaped wall bracket with concave upstand set back on the table over repeating arch motif and floral trail decorated marquetry to fascia flanked by female masks to angles, terminating with a rococo scroll cast pendant mount to base.The clock 84cm (33ins) high; the clock on wall bracket 114cm (44.5ins) high, 43cm (17ins) wide, 21.5cm (8.5ins) deep.Provenance: The Estate of a deceased Gentleman; purchased from Pelham Galleries, London, July 1966.Although he doesn't appear to be recorded in the usual sources, from extant examples, a clockmaker with the name Jean Bacquet is known to have been working in Paris during the middle years of the 18th century.

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