A LOUIS XV ORMOLU AND TORTOISESHELL AND BRASS-INLAID BOULLE MARQUETRY CARTEL CLOCK

Lot 305
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ID 1538790
Lot 305 | A LOUIS XV ORMOLU AND TORTOISESHELL AND BRASS-INLAID BOULLE MARQUETRY CARTEL CLOCK
Valeur estimée
$ 150 000 – 250 000
A LOUIS XV ORMOLU AND TORTOISESHELL AND BRASS-INLAID BOULLE MARQUETRY CARTEL CLOCK
ATTRIBUTED TO CHARLES CRESSENT, CIRCA 1740-1745
Emblematic of Time Triumphant Over Love, the ormolu dial cast with an Apollo mask over a lyre, the Roman numeral hours enameled in blue on white shaped panels, the sides of the case with Boulle marquetry in tortoiseshell and brass, surmounted by a winged figure of Chronos atop clouds, raising his scythe against a winged figure of Cupid below, enclosed in a large C-scroll and surrounded by shells, reeds, coral, rockwork and large trailing flowers, the movement signed 'De L'Espinasse A Paris'
44 ¼ in. (112.5 cm.) high




Provenance

William Henry Leicester Stanhope, 11th Earl of Harrington, Elvaston Castle, Derbyshire (1922-2009); sold Sotheby's, London, 22 November, 1963, lot 59.
With Rosenberg & Stiebel, New York.
Acquired by Annie Laurie Aitken (1900-1984) and Russell Barnett Aitken (1910-2002) from the above, 1967.



Literature

T. Dell, 'The Gilt-bronze Cartel Clocks of Charles Cressent', The Burlington Magazine 107, no. 769, April 1967, p. 214, 'type C', no. 3.
W. Edey, French Clocks, New York, 1967, pp. 46-47, fig. 21 (when with Rosenberg and Stiebel).
A. Pradère, Charles Cressent, Dijon, 2003, p. 300, no. 234.
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