Small gilt-bronze cartel clock, Transition period, circa 1770. Lepautre à Paris. Gilt-bronze case boldly cast with scrolls, foliage and flower heads, featuring shell motifs below and military armour on top (helmet, sword and quiver). Single-piece enamel dial with Roman numerals for the hours and Arabic numerals for the 5 minutes; two finely cut, engraved and gilt hands, and a blued-steel third hand for the setting of the alarm. Signature LEPAUTRE Hr DU ROY ..A PARIS.. Circular movement with verge escapement and silk-suspended pendulum; quarter-strike by two hammers on a single bell on demand by a pull-cord on the left; alarm setting by the hand in the dial, to be armed by a pull-cord on the right. Autonomy two weeks.
Height 52cm (21"), width 29cm '11"), depth 12cm (4 1/2").
Jean-André LEPAUTE (1720-1789) and Jean-Baptiste LEPAUTE (1727-1802)
The dial signed: .. LE PAUTRE Hr DU ROY .. A PARIS.. . This signature refers to the company operated by Jean-André Lepaute (1720-1789) and his brother Jean-Baptiste Lepaute (1727-1802). It is impossible to precisely distinguish the individual contribution of each of the associates in the work produced by the company... ref to the Pdf document below
Tardy, Dictionnaire des horlogers français, Paris, 1972;
J.-D. Augarde, Les Ouvriers du Temps, La Pendule à Paris de Louis XIV à Napoléon Ier;
Pierre Kjellberg, Encyclopédie de la Pendule Française, du Moyen Age au XXè siècle;
Multiple authors, Orologi negli arredi del Palazzo Reale di Torino e delle residenze sabaude.
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