"A Louis XV Period (1724 - 1774) Bracket Clock."
A Louis XV brass, tortoiseshell and green horn Boulle marquetry and gilt-bronze mount bracket clock decorated with bouquets of carnation. Abundant and beautiful gilt bronze rococo ornamentation. White and blue emailed dial with Roman numerals for hours and Arabic numerals for minutes.
This bracket clock was executed about 1750.
In good condition. Nice matte and burnished gilding and chiselling.
France.
18th century.
A bracket clock in the same veine in the Encyclopédie de la Pendule Française du Moyen Age au XXe siècle by Pierre Kjellberg, Les Editions de l'Amateur, 1997, p. 89.
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