Beschreibung:

A LATE LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED BRASS AND TORTOISESHELL-INLAID BOULLE MARQUETRY AND EBONY MANTEL CLOCK
LATE 18TH CENTURY, AFTER THE DESIGN BY ANDRE-CHARLES BOULLE, THE LOUIS XIV MOVEMENT BY JACQUES III THURET, LATE 17TH/EARLY 18TH CENTURY
A LATE LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED BRASS AND TORTOISESHELL-INLAID BOULLE MARQUETRY AND EBONY MANTEL CLOCK LATE 18TH CENTURY, AFTER THE DESIGN BY ANDRE-CHARLES BOULLE, THE LOUIS XIV MOVEMENT BY JACQUES III THURET, LATE 17TH/EARLY 18TH CENTURY CASE: the arched case surmounted by an Etruscan oil lamp on a waisted spreading socle, the glazed door between strapwork uprights headed by volutes, with a relief plaque depicting the Rape of Cybele beneath the dial, above a half-patera and lambrequin-shaped barometer dial, the plinth mounted with recumbent Egyptian sphinxes to the sides, supported on Medusa-mask headed spirally-turned feet and a plinth base, the reverse elaborately inlaid with Bérainesque motifs, with paper label numbered '5509' DIAL: with individual Roman enamel chapters and pierced blued-steel hands, the engraved brass dial plate with outer ring numbered '1-60' MOVEMENT: the three train movement quarter striking on two bells, one bell for hour, two count wheels (one for hour, one for quarters), with later recoil anchor escapement, silk suspension, the backplate signed ' J Thuret, Paris ', the front plate stamped '762 LG' 43¾ in. (111 cm.) high; 19 1/8 in. (48.5 cm.) wide; 9 in. (23 cm.) deep