Lot n° 166
Estimation :
3000 - 5000
EUR
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Result
: 16 500EUR
Officer’s clock mounted in a chiseled and gilded bronze case - Lot 166
Officer’s clock mounted in a chiseled and gilded bronze case.
The base features a doucine bordered by a twisted cord.
Rich openwork decoration with dynamic motifs, panels, lambrequins, and applied foliage. The sides are adorned with an openwork pentacle.
The domed top, concealing three gongs, is flanked by turlupets.
Ring-shaped dial with Arabic and Roman numerals, signed “LEFEBVRE à Fontainebleau.”
Date indicator at the bottom.
Complication movement.
Probably Jean Lefebvre, who became a master clockmaker in 1733 and later served as the king’s clockmaker. He was active in Fontainebleau and Paris.
Work from the second half of the 18th century.
32 x 18 x 12.5 cm
(Movement functionality not guaranteed; movement has been restored).
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York holds a clock by this same master under inventory number 29.52.17.
A similar clock was offered at Fraysse on June 4, 2008, lot 221.
Bibliography: Dictionnaire des horlogers français, Tardy, 1972.
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