A Louis XIV period Boulle and gilt bronze mounted bracket clock By Baltazar Martinot, Paris
£2,000
Auction: 19 March 2008 at 11:00 GMT
Description
the gilt dial with white enamel chapters, above the apron cast with two draped maidens and a cherub seated on a globe, supporting a plaque signed B. Martinot, A. Paris, the twin train movement with anchor escapement and back plate signed Baltazar Martinot, Paris, the domed case inlaid with brass scrolling foliage surmounted by an angel blowing a trumpet and flanked by classical caryatids, raised on toupie feet
Dimensions
43cm wide, 83cm high, 19cm deep