Louis XVI Clock Circa 1780 Designated On The Dial: Leblond A Paris

Large Louis XVI "Love conquers Time" clock circa 1780 Designated on the dial: Leblond A PARISH. 47 cm, L. 31 cm Wire suspension The movement has been checked and cleaned by my watch restorer. Pierre-Jean Leblond the younger, mentioned rue St. Honoré 1773-1806; Jean-Nicolas Leblond, mentioned rue St. Louis 1773-An VII (1798) This clock, emblem of "Love conquers Time", is inspired by a project preserved at the Library of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris. A comparable example, stamped by Master Founder-Gilder Michel Poisson, sold at Christie's, London, 11 June 1998, lot 31. An identical example, also with a white marble case, is shown in P. Kjellberg, Encyclopédie de la pendule Française, Paris, 1997, p. 176, ill. B. See the identical clock: Sothebys, New York, 6 November 2008, lot 132, 12,500 USD Inv. No. 3,2016,450 €