Lot 354

Panier à Paris, Height 570 mm, circa 1640
A French Louis XIII boulle inlaid brass mounted 'religieuse' table clock with half hour / hour strike and alarm
Case: ebonized/red tortoiseshell veneer/brass inlays/gilt brass mountings. Dial: brass, gilt, white enamelled chapter cartouches with blue Roman numerals. Movm.: rectangular brass full plate movement, 3 barrels, 2 hammers/1 bell, locking plate, verge escapement.
The wooden tortoiseshell case on four moulded ball feet is elaborately inlaid with Boulle-style marquetry of scrolling foliage and has a lavishly decorated gilt brass pelmet. The sides as well as the front have large glazed windows. The finely chased gilt dial features white enamel numeral cartouches with painted blue Roman numerals and an exquisitely chased flower in the centre. Below the dial sits a gilt applied ornament showing the goddess Diana on the left and Apollo with his lyre on the right; they are surrounded by acanthus leaves and foliage scolls. The bell is concealed behind an arched and moulded gable with gilt bronze Flambeau finials.

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