Gilt bronze and chased alcove cartel decorated with a covere - Lot 246

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Gilt bronze and chased alcove cartel decorated with a covere - Lot 246
Gilt bronze and chased alcove cartel decorated with a covered vase with garlands of laurels and falling acanthus leaves. Enameled circular dial with Roman numerals for the hours and Arabic numerals for the minutes, signed "Millot, horloger du Roy à Paris". Gilt copper hands, chased and openworked with foliate foliage. The plate is also signed. Pull cord for ringing on demand. Late Louis XV, early Louis XVI period Watchmaker: Pierre Millot, master in 1754. Supplier to the Menus-Plaisirs, he notably delivered a clock for the grand salon of the Château de la Muette in 1764. H: 41.5 - W: 23 cm - D: approx. 11 cm (the left garland needs refixing, small accident to the enamel, wear) Bibliography : Tardy, Dictionnaire Des Horlogers Français P. Kjellberg, Encyclopédie de la pendule française du Moyen Age au XXe siècle, 1997, p. 190: mentions a similar alcove cartel, but with a dial signed Verdier in Paris, from the Pascal Izarn collection in Paris.
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