A LOUIS XV ORMOLU, PATINATED BRONZE AND BRASS-INLAID CORNE VERTE MUSICAL RHINOCEROUS MANTEL CLOCK THE MOVEMENT BY JEAN-BAPTISTE DUTERTRE THE CASE ATTRIBUTED TO JEAN- JOSEPH DE SAINT-GERMAIN CIRCA 1745-1749 The circular glazed white enameled dial with Roman and Arabic chapters, signed 'J.B.TE DUTERTRE APARIS', the twin barrel movement with silk suspended pendulum and countwheel strike on a bell, signed accordingly, with trip lever to the plinth housing the musical movement with fuse and spring barrel playing music on eleven bells, the drum-shaped and leather-wrapped clock case surmounted by a putto and draped with floral trails, supported upon a rhinoceros on a naturalistically-cast rockwork and scrolling foliage base, on a shaped rectangular musical case with spreading top and gadrooned and foliate edge, each side with a C-scrolled cartouche with floral trellis backed by red silk and with floral basket to front and back, the reverse with hinged door, the scrolling foliate angles terminating scroll feet, the ormolu stamped repeatedly with the C Couronné poinçon 28¼ in. (72 cm.) high; 19¼ in. (49 cm.) wide; 9 in. (23 cm.) deep
A LOUIS XV ORMOLU, PATINATED BRONZE AND BRASS-INLAID CORNE VERTE MUSICAL RHINOCEROUS MANTEL CLOCK THE MOVEMENT BY JEAN-BAPTISTE DUTERTRE THE CASE ATTRIBUTED TO JEAN- JOSEPH DE SAINT-GERMAIN CIRCA 1745-1749 The circular glazed white enameled dial with Roman and Arabic chapters, signed 'J.B.TE DUTERTRE APARIS', the twin barrel movement with silk suspended pendulum and countwheel strike on a bell, signed accordingly, with trip lever to the plinth housing the musical movement with fuse and spring barrel playing music on eleven bells, the drum-shaped and leather-wrapped clock case surmounted by a putto and draped with floral trails, supported upon a rhinoceros on a naturalistically-cast rockwork and scrolling foliage base, on a shaped rectangular musical case with spreading top and gadrooned and foliate edge, each side with a C-scrolled cartouche with floral trellis backed by red silk and with floral basket to front and back, the reverse with hinged door, the scrolling foliate angles terminating scroll feet, the ormolu stamped repeatedly with the C Couronné poinçon 28¼ in. (72 cm.) high; 19¼ in. (49 cm.) wide; 9 in. (23 cm.) deep
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