MID-18TH CENTURY AND LATER, THE MOVEMENT DRUM POSSIBLY LATER

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A LOUIS XV ORMOLU CARTEL CLOCK
MID-18TH CENTURY AND LATER, THE MOVEMENT DRUM POSSIBLY LATER
The circular glazed enamelled dial with Roman and Arabic chapters inscribed 'CHles BALTAZAR A PARIS', the movement conformingly signed, within pierced scrollwork and foliage with a youth to each side and surmounted by two Bacchic youths below a flowerhead, the apron with a recumbent lion, movement with modern pendulum mechanism, losses
31½ in. (80 cm.) high

拍品专文

The Balthazar dynasty of horlogers is first recorded in the late 17th Century and flourished well into the 19th Century. The movement of this clock is by Henri-Charles dit Charles Balthazar, elected maître in 1717, and first recorded in Place Dauphine in 1733. One of the most famous of his family, 'Horloger de Mesdames Filles de France', he used clock cases by B. Lieutaud, J.J. de St.-Germain (see lot 450 in this sale), A. Foullet and J. Goyer, and supplied movements to the ébénistes J. Dubois and J.F. Oeben. His clients included the Garde-Meuble Royal and the ambassador of Russia.