Important Cartel - Lefaucheur/baltazar - France - 18th Century

Important cartel in ball marquetry, copper on a brown tortoiseshell background. The dial indicates the hours in Roman numerals, strikes the hour, and half hours. Rich ornamentation in bronze, and marquetry, arabesques, floral and geometric motifs. The dial signed LEFAUCHEUR DU ROY**, and bears the signature of the cabinetmaker L. Baltazar * France 18th century *Balthazar Lieutaud (1720/1780) was a master cabinetmaker from a long family tradition. Received master on March 20, 1749, he specialized in the chests of floor clocks or regulators and in the sheaths of cartels, sumptuously decorated, but also created some pieces of luxury furniture. **The King's Reaper: Lefaucheur Alexandre, Paris master in 1729, watchmaker to the King in 1746, located at the Pont au Change in 1748, "at the meridian" on the Quai de l'Horloge in 1772-80. France 18th century