Louis XVI Period Gilt Bronze

mantle clock with columns in bronze, finely chased and gilded with matte mercury and burnished with agate.
The pendulum rests on 4 toupie feet.
The projecting base is highlighted by a foliage and crossed ribbon ribbon motif.
The front holds the movement, topped by two spandrels and supported by and supported by two laurel branches in front of a blue glass opening. covering an opening. A frieze of ovals and pearls surrounds the clock.

On each side of the bollard is a half-column with an openwork fluting, trimmed with blue glass on a silver leaf background. silver leaf embossed in the guilloche style simulating translucent blue enamel. Each half-column is surmounted a pine spade. The clock is topped by a vase, decorated with gadroons, with two handles. The dial is in white enamel with black Roman numerals. It is signed Chatenay in Versailles, clockmaker, and Coteau, enameller. restored between 55 and 60 minutes).

The movement, with 8 days of autonomy, strikes the hours and half-hours. hours. The suspension is by wire.
The squares of the winders are slightly offset, typical of 18th-century production. typical of 18th-century production.

The clock is in very good condition with its original thick mercury gilding. The movement is in very good working order.

reference: The drawing of this clock is reproduced in "Recueil de desseins. Models of pendules, années 1755-1780" after Vion, Osmond, Foullet, Saint Germain, lieuteaud. It is described as "Pièce à la rou ???, quarrée, colonne, vaze" (quarrée is the spelling of carrée still used in the XVIIIth century).

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