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A LATE LOUIS XV ORMOLU CARTEL CLOCK
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A LATE LOUIS XV ORMOLU CARTEL CLOCK

THE MOVEMENT BY HENRI LACAN, CIRCA 1760-70

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A LATE LOUIS XV ORMOLU CARTEL CLOCK
THE MOVEMENT BY HENRI LACAN, CIRCA 1760-70
The circular glazed and white-enamelled dial with Roman and Arabic chapters and twin-barelled movement signed 'LACAN A PARIS', set within a tapering case surmounted by a leaf-wrapped urn with ram's masks suspending fruited laurel garlands, flanked by urn-headed pilasters, and terminating in a foliate-cast boss, lacking glazing beneath dial
28 in. (71 cm.) high; 13½ in. (34.5 cm.) wide
来源
With Luigi Anton Laura, Ospedaletti.
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拍品专文

Of quintessentially neoclassical design, this clock is closely-related to an example featuring virtually-identical rams' heads to the classical urn finial, which is in the Musée du Louvre, Paris (ill. E. Dumonthier, Les Bronzes du Mobilier National, Pendules et Cartels, Paris). A further closely-related cartel clock by Lacan, with urn finial, laurel swags and with foliate-cast boss, is illustrated in P. Kjellberg, Encyclopédie de la Pendule Française du Moyen-âge au XXe Siècle, Paris, 1997, p 190, fig C.

Henri Lacan was received as maître-horloger in 1756. Elected Juré in 1766, he established his atelier in the rue du Bourg l'Abbé in 1770. Lacan worked with fondeurs Leligois, Gérard and Thomire père amongst others.