A French Louis Xiv Gilt Brass Mounted Boulle Bracket - Mar 29, 2016 | Dreweatts Donnington Priory In United Kingdom
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A French Louis XIV gilt brass mounted Boulle bracket
A French Louis XIV gilt brass mounted Boulle bracket
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A French Louis XIV gilt brass mounted Boulle bracket clock Ducoroy, Paris, circa 1700 The rectangular twin barrel movement with four shouldered baluster turned pillars pinned through the backplate signed Ducoroy AParis to lower margin, the strike train with scroll pierced detent gates and high position countwheel for sounding the hours and half hour on a bell mounted within the superstructure of the case, the 8.75 inch circular twelve-piece cartouche numeral dial with centre incorporating cast decoration of seated musicians within chapter ring with enamel Roman hour numerals and rococo scroll cast borders and every minute numbered to outer track, the engraved cut brass and red stained shell marquetry veneered case with cast Roman Emperor bust surmount and gilt urn finials applied to the ogee shaped upstand veneered with foliate strapwork and with acanthus corner mounts over foliate cast frieze emerging from the sides of the gilt cavetto moulded arcade inlaid cornice, the front with heavy cast break-arch glazed bezel enclosing lyre and laurel infill beneath dial within floral trail and panel inlaid surround, the canted front angles applied with fine scroll-cast allegorical male terms and the angled sides with brass bordered rectangular windows over swollen marquetry decorated lower sections, the base with generous gilt brass scrolls flanking shaped apron centred with a lions masked adorned with palmette headpiece, on knopped feet, 71cm (28ins) high. A clockmaker with the name Ducoroy appears not to be recorded in the ususal sources however an 18th century French clockmaker with the name Mynuel Duccoroy is mentioned in Wilson, Cohen, Ronfort, Augarde and Friess EUROPEAN CLOCKS IN THE J. P. GETTY MUSEUM on page 176.
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A French Louis XIV gilt brass mounted Boulle bracket

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