Cartels chez Jacques Neve

Early 18th Century Louis XIV turtleshell and brass inlay cartel clock
with gilt bronzework of exquisite quality, signed Gribelin à Paris.
Four-armed and one-pillar console, decorated with a smiling head
of Apollo, with a flowery tiled ceiling, and a grenade on the lower end.
Lozenge-shaped case with ormolu bronzework, a dove taking off on the lower
front, and on top a young boy with a ball, sitting on a goat.
Ormolu dial with twelve enamel cartouches with dark blue Roman
numerals for the hours, blued steel hands.
Movement with 15 days duration, with half-hourly countwheel strike
on a bronze bell situated under the hood.
Early anchor recoil escapement on 4 1/2 teeth, silk suspension.
Width 49cm, Overall height 123cm, the clock only 80cm.

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French Louis XVI gilt bronze cartel clock
signed LÉCHOPIÉ à Paris, circa 1780.
Enamel dial with roman numerals
and outer five minute markings,
pierced and engraved hands, movement of exceptional
quality with exclusive escapement specially designed,
a cross between the pin-wheel type of Amant and the
Graham dead-beat type, indirectly driving
the blued steel center-sweeping seconds hand.
Countwheel strike on a bell, gilt bronze case
surmounted by an urn with trailing ribbons,
trellis sides with acanthus volutes,
trailing garlands below, the base with a berry finial.
Height 79cm

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Fine and attractive 'Vernis Martin' bronze mounted
French cartel clock, Mid-18th Century,
signed LEJ'AŸ A PARIS.
(Jean Lejay, master in 1720, established rue
S-Lazare, then Aux Porcherons 1748).
13-piece enamel dial with roman numerals
and outer five minute markings,
foliate pierced hands.
Movement with anchor recoil
escapement, silk suspended pendulum,
half-hourly countwheel strike on a silvered bell.
Overall height with base 119cm

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Small French Louis XIV Boulle striking
Cartel signed Masson à Paris
on the movement, early 18th C.
(Charles Masson, master in 1717, established
Rue St-Louis 1741-47).
20-cm relief brass dial with cartouche blue Roman numerals,
movement with baluster pillars,
small anchor escapement and silk suspended pendulum,
half-hourly countwheel strike on a bell,
Quarter repeat strike on three bells.
shaped boulle inlaid case adorned throughout
with foliate ormolu scrolls,
the whole raised on triangular feet,
together with a matching ogee shaped bracket.
Overall height 70cm

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Fine and attractive 'Contrepartie' bronze mounted
French cartel clock, Mid-18th Century,
signed Gilles l'Aîné à Paris.
Overall height with base 135cm

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Exceptionally rare very small Cartel d'Alcôve with secret,
signed Lenoir à Lyon, circa 1700-1730, in an
original condition.
15-day movement with quarter-strike on demand only,
with three hammers and three bells.
Verge escapement and silk suspension.
Height 38cm

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French Louis XV-period cartel d'alcôve,
circa 1750 signed JULIEN LEROY.
Chevalier de Béthune ecsapement, with pull-
wind quarter strike on one silvered bell.

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French Louis XVI gilt bronze cartel clock
signed Dehémant à Paris, circa 1790.
(Charles-Nicolas de Hémant),
movement with shaped plates and
rare single winding barrel with double action,
called 'Roue Libre'.

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Fine and attractive 'Vernis Martin' bronze mounted
French cartel clock, Mid-18th Century,
signed GUERARD A PROVINS (Marne Region).
Movement with rare Chevalier de Béthune
escapement, silk suspended pendulum,
half-hourly countwheel strike on a silvered bell,
Pull quarter-repeat on two bells.
The case made by Goyer.

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Fine and attractive 'Vernis Martin'
bronze mounted French cartel clock,
Transition period (1766),
signed LECLERE A SOISSONS.
Two subsidiary dials
and one window aperture below the main
dial for all the calendar functions;
day of the month, month of the year and its
zodiac sign, day of the week and its sign,
moonphase and age of the Moon.

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French Transition Period cartel d'alcôve,
circa 1780 signed F.aint.Hoguet à Paris.
(for François-Toussaint)
Finely gilt case.
Movement similarly signed
Hoguet le Jne à Paris.
Anchor recoil esapement, with pull-
wind quarter strike on two silvered bells.

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Small French Louis XIIII Boulle striking
"Cartel d'Alcôve", signed Balthazar Martinot à Paris,
early 18th C.

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French Louis XV gilt bronze
Cartel clock, circa 1750.
Dial and movement signed
Etienne LENOIR à Paris.

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French Louis XV gilt bronze
Cartel clock, circa 1740.
Dial and movement signed
Pierre Bernier à Paris.
Verge esapement, countwheel
striking on a silvered bell.

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Fine and attractive 'Vernis Martin' bronze mounted
French cartel clock, Mid-18th Century,
signed LEBEL PERE à Orbec .

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