LARGE BOULLE PENDULUM CLOCK LOUIS XIV
Paris. Ca. 1700. Jacques Thuret Horloger du Roi

Oak case with Boulle-technique veneer; tortoise shell and brass ornamentally laid in. Gilded bronze applications. Enamel cartouches. Scalloped cut console base. Thereon resting on four sphinges a case with breakfront edges; atop this a female Caryatide. High; stepped cornice with vases and the goddess Hebe sitting on an eagle. The magnificent; pierced dial with Roman hour cartouches and engraved minutes. Rectangular pendulum movement; converted into a lever movement; thread suspension and half-hour chime on a bell on top. Height 91cm.
The movement inscribed Thuret Hlger du Roy.
Condition B/C. P/S.

Provenance:
Private collection Rhineland.

Literature:
-Tardy: Dictionnaire des Horlogers Francais; Paris 1972. Maker cf. p. 614.
-Peter Heuer and Klaus Maurice: Europ鋓sche Pendeluhren. Munich 1988. For type cf. ill. 16.
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