Rare 18th Century Gilt Bronze Wall Clock 18 Pendulum Clock

Important Louis XVI period wall clock with Apollo mask, dial surrounded by acanthus leaves and drapery fall, with a covered urn perched on an entablature with a frieze of posts. Louis David Carré in Paris, clockmaker established at the Louvre from 1744, nephew of Julien le Roy, received master on December 31, 1748. Rare mechanism with quarter strike on three bells. Particularity of the mechanism which, instead of having three independent hammers for each gong, has a single articulated hammer striking the gong in turn one after the other. A similar model "with drapery and Apollo's head below the dial" had been delivered for the apartment of the Duke of Normandy at the Palace of Versailles by the clockmaker Caranda, according to the inventory of the furniture repository of 1785-1787.