Transition Period Cartel

Beautiful violin-shaped wall-mounted cartel and its console in red horn (tinted tortoiseshell) and rich ornamentation of chiseled and gilded bronze decorated with volutes, consoles, ribbon knots, florets, shells, acanthus leaves, rockeries, branches, etc., standing on four small arched feet (small accidents and alterations). Bronze dial inlaid with enameled cartels, signed "Dechamp à Toulouse", indicating the hours in Roman numerals, the minutes in Arabic numerals. Complication movement striking the hours, quarters and halves (suspension modified, not yet revised).
Transition from the Louis XV and Louis XVI periods.
Good condition.

Total height: 113 cm
Cartel dimensions: width 44 - height 78 - depth 18 cm
Console dimensions: width 46 - height 35 - depth 23 cm