GILDED BRONZE CARTEL CLOCK LOUIS XV
Paris. Ca. 1750. Alexandre Le Faucheur

Gilded bronze. Enamel dial. Rocaille-shaped case decorated with laurel branches and scrolls. As finial a sitting Chinese with parasol. Round dial with Roman numerals and Arabic minutes. Large flattened pendulum mechanism with verge movement; thread suspension and half-hour chime on a bell. Height 55cm.
Dial and movement inscribed Le Faucheur ?Paris.
Condition A/B. P/S.

Provenance:
Private collection Rhineland.

Literature:
-Tardy: Dictionnaire des Horlogers Francais; Paris 1972. Maker cf. p. 361.
-Hans Ottomeyer and Peter Pr鰏chel: Vergoldete Bronzen; Vol. 1; Munich 1989. For type cf.
ill. 2.6.4.