Cartel Boulle Marquetry "the Chinese" Stamped Foullet, 143 Cm, Eighteenth

Cartel Boulle marquetry "in Chinese" stamped Foullet, 143 cm, and its eighteenth Violone Cartel in Boulle marquetry console: Schools ** ille turtle, abundant and fine inlaid brass, natural bronzes. The finely carved enamelled dial consists of cartridges with Roman and Arabic numerals. At the top of a cartel Chinese parasol. In front a female allegorical figure holds a book "Truth alone is enough." The console also features the brass inlays and abundant chimeras or dragons at both corners, reminding the Asian theme in vogue in the eighteenth century. The mechanism whose suspension was changed was revised by our watchmaker and is in perfect working condition. Stamped "ANT FOVLLET" and punches guild "JME" on the cartel and console. Antoine Foullet received Master cabinetmaker in 1749. Specialized in the manufacture of "boxes" for the cartels in the Faubourg St. Antoine, he has a solid reputation and is one of the best craftsmen with André Charles Boulle, Balthazar Lieutaud. .. After the award of a cartel Vernis Martin directed by Antoine Foullet by Sotheby's for $ € 48 750 in 2011, the expert says: "With the death of Antoine Foullet in 1775, the inventory after death conducted in his workshop in the Faubourg St. Antoine mentioned many boxes pendulum whose carpenter seemed to have specialized. Today, two other cartels decorated with gilded bronze on the theme of the fable The Fox and the Stork and Antoine stamped Foullet are known: one in martin varnish happened on sale at Antiquorum Geneva, 22 April 1995, lot 161, and one inlaid tortoiseshell, horn and mother of pearl, is kept at the International Museum Watchmaking La Chaux-de-Fonds. Both have a movement Jaquet-Droz signed. " Louis XV, XVIII Height: 143 cm cartel Height: 100 cm width: 46 cm depth: 22 cm Delivery in France and abroad. World Wide Delivery. Additional photos on request. To see in Méounes Antiques, 21 Church Square, 83136 Méounes, Var, France. antiquites-var.fr meounes.antiquites@gmail.com