Cage-mounted officer's clock in chased and gilded bronze. - Lot 166

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Cage-mounted officer's clock in chased and gilded bronze. - Lot 166
Cage-mounted officer's clock in chased and gilded bronze. The doucine base is edged with a twisted cord. Rich openwork decoration of moving motifs, reserves, lambrequins and foliage. The sides are adorned with an openwork pentacle. The domed top, concealing three stamps, is flanked by turlupets. Ring dial with Arabic and Roman numerals, signed "LEFEBVRE à Fontainebleau". Dater at bottom. Complication and repeater movement. Probably Jean Lefebvre, master watchmaker in 1733. He was active in Fontainebleau and Paris. Work from the second half of the 18th century. 32 x 18 x 12.5 cm (Functionality of the movement not guaranteed, restoration to the movement). The Metropolitan Museum, New York, holds a clock by the same master under inventory number 29.52.17. A similar clock was shown at Fraysse on June 4, 2008, lot 221. Bibliography: Dictionnaire des horlogers français, Tardy, 1972.
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