A Louis XV Gilt Bronze Mounted Ebonized Cartonnier Clock
ATTRIBUTED TO CHARLES CRESSENT, MID-18TH CENTURY
Height 16 x width 21 inches.
Sale 423 - Connoisseur and Collector: A Chicago Residence
Nov 17, 2015
6:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$20,000 -
30,000
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$25,000
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Lot Description
A Louis XV Gilt Bronze Mounted Ebonized Cartonnier Clock
ATTRIBUTED TO CHARLES CRESSENT, MID-18TH CENTURY
the dial signed Julien le Roy de la Societe des Arts a Paris, the movement signed Julien le Roy a Paris, the case mounted with acanthus scrolls, a shell and having a foliate-framed lenticle at the bottom.
Height 16 x width 21 inches.
Footnote:
Compare to a model sold Sotheby's Paris, November 7, 2013, Lot 171
a model in the collection of the Palazzo del Quirinale, Rome
and a model illustrated in Alexandre Pradere, Charles Cressent, 2003, p. 301
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