Cartel To Ask In Boulle Marquetry Louis XIV Period

Cartel wall lamp to place in marquetry called Boulle of brown tortoiseshell and brass highlighted with a rich ornamentation of chiseled and gilded bronzes from the Louis XIV period (late XVII th early XVIII th), slight wear to the gilding. The applied facade of a couple of doves and a coat of arms, makes us suppose that it could be a wedding gift, dial with blue enameled cartridges which indicates the hours in Roman numerals on a disc background in gilded brass indicating the minutes in Arabic numerals engraved on a decoration of birds, foliage and lambrequins, topped with a tripod casserole dish on a doucine, the uprights are decorated with fire pots and figures of Espanettes and finished with hoofs. Movement signed GRIBELIN in Paris ** ('escapement and pendulum modified in the 19th century). The cartel is in perfect working order and rings for hours and half hours. ** GRIBELIN: Dynasty of Bloisois and Parisian Watchmakers who worked from the XVIth to the XVIIIth century.