GILDED BRONZE PENDULUM CLOCK "LOVE TRIUMPHS OVER TIME"
Paris. Ca. 1775. Jean-Joseph or Balthazar Lieutaud

Gilded bronze. Enamel dial. Upright rectangular; breakfront case with lateral laurel festoons. The dial framed by an oak wreath and Chronos. As finial Cupid sitting on a mountain of clouds. Roman numerals and Arabic minutes. Large flattened pendulum movement with thread suspension and half-hour chime on a bell. Height 49cm.
Inscribed on the dial and the movement Lieutaud A PARIS.
Condition B. P/S.

Provenance:
Private collection Rhineland.

Literature:
Tardy: Dictionnaire des Horlogers Francais; Paris 1972. Maker cf. p. 414.