A LOUIS XVI STYLE ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD, AMARANTH AND PARQUETRY RÉGULATEUR

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A LOUIS XVI STYLE ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD, AMARANTH AND PARQUETRY RÉGULATEUR
DATED 1888, BY HENRY DASSON

With a circular enamelled dial with roman chapters signed 'henry Dasson, Paris', within a beaded and leaf-tip cast hinged door in an ormolu clad case crisply cast as clouds with frolicking putti above a moulding applied with flowery ribbon-tied drapery above a chamfered rectangular frieze applied with a female mask over a tapering case fitted with a glazed panel and applied with a flower-filled urn issuing foliate scrolls flanked by foliate scrolling chutes over paw sabots, on an incurved rectangular plinth with foliate cast toupie feet, stamped 'HENRY DASSON 1888' and inscribed 'henry Dasson et Cie 1888'--85½in. (217cm.) high, 20in. (51cm.) wide, 12¼in. (31cm.) deep

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For Henry Dasson footnote see lot 293.

The offered lot is an exact copy of a Régulateur in the Louvre, attributed to Jean-Henri Riesener, circa 1785. Certain details of the mounts are similar to works known to be by him such as the central mask of Apollo on a jewellery cabinet he made for the Comtesse de Provence now in the English Royal collections. See. Alcouffe, Furniture Collections in the Louvre, 1993, p. 286