Lot 438
LOUIS XV GILT BRONZE MOUNTED TORTOISESHELL AND CUT BRASS BOULLE MARQUETRY CLOCK AND BRACKET Y
MID 18TH CENTURY, EARLY 19TH CENTURY MOVEMENT BY VULLIAMY
Auction: Day Two | Thurs 13th Nov at 10am | Lots 339 to 600
Description
the case by Nicolas Jean Marchand, by the gilt dial with white enamel Roman numerals cartouche plaques, with an outer ring of Arabic five minute markers plaques, the waisted case in tortoiseshell première and contre partie Boulle, surmounted by a gilt metal figure of Apollo slaying the serpent Python, with gilt metal mounts, the door with a figure of Eros seated on a lion playing a lyre, the interior with a sloped parquetry panel, raised on bracket feet cast with beast heads and exotically dressed male masks, the back door stamped ‘Marchand’ to the centre, on a conforming tapered boulle marquetry bracket with finely cast mask mounts, the later fitted early 19th century English twin train chain fusee movement with anchor escapement by Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (1780-1854), signed ‘Vulliamy, London, 779’, with a matching number pendulum
Dimensions
the clock 106cm high, 48cm wide, 21cm deep; the bracket 57cm wide, 42cm high, 26cm deep
Provenance
Part of the former contents of Poltalloch House, Kilmartin, Argyll; designed by William Burn in the Scottish Baronial style and built circa 1849-1853 for the Malcolm family
Footnote
Nicolas Jean Marchand became a Maitre Ebeniste in 1738, established in rue Saint-Nicolas. He mainly produced good quality ormolu-mounted lacquer commodes as well as clock-cases.
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