"Wall Cartel In Gilt Bronze Louis XVI Style"
Rare cartel of applique on adherent console in Louis XVI style from the Napoleon III period. Entirely in gilded bronze decorated on the whole cartel with garlands of finely executed flowers, the console is chiseled with foliage, channels and windings, the middle part is composed of a trellis underlined by a winding supporting a large and beautiful Domed dial in white enamel signed “Planchon à Paris” in red, it indicates in black the hours in Arabic numerals and the minutes in Arabic numerals in red. Finely worked gilt bronze hands. At the top is decorated with flowers, bow and ribbon. Mechanism also bearing the signature of the watchmaker, it is equipped with a spiral escapement providing simplified use, hour and half-hour striking on an old bell. Rare model, of good manufacture, decorative with a beautiful reading of the time, perfect authenticity and in a remarkable state of preservation. Visit our website: www.meubles-art.com