Exceptional quality late 17th C ormolu and turtleshell veneer French clock, signed Louis Ourry à Paris on the dial and the backplate. Very finely engraved and gilt dial with enamel cartouckes with blue Roman numerals and for the signature below, the lower part showing a gallery with columns and a mirror behind allowing for the visible pendulum. Blued steel hands. Three trains movement, for the time in the centre, with verge escapement and silk suspension, quarter-strike on the right for the four quarters, on two bells, and the hourly strike on the left on a third bell. Both systems with their own countwheels placed on the rear plate. Autonomy 3 weeks.
Height 54cm
Born in Blois, † Paris 1699. Son of Jacques, apothicary and of Marie Lepelletier. Married to Suzanne Guineau. Protestant. Made master in Paris. established Quai Pelletier (1684). His widow is recorded Quai des Orfèvres in the Ville de Blois where she carried on withe her late husband's business. In December 1700, during the process of an inventory in her business premises, seventeen clocks were found to be in violation of the sumptuary edict. Ourry used cases by A.C. Boulle and the président de Montholon was one of his customers.
Brateau, Delamare; Ronfort, 1986.
(Ref J.-D. Augarde "Les Ouvriers du Temps, Ornamental Clocks and Clockmakers in Eighteenth Century Paris")
London, British Museum; Paris, Musée du Louvre, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Bibliothèque Mazarine; Versailles, Château.
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