Nicolas DELAUNAY à Paris - Début du XVIIIe siècle

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Nicolas DELAUNAY à Paris - Début du XVIIIe siècle
Cartel and its console in red tortoiseshell marquetry and copper with gilt bronze mount. The case surmounted by a cherub, the cut sides adorned with caryatids, the whole on a background of gilded brass volutes resting on ball feet, under the dial a bas-relief and the mascaron bearing the name of the watchmaker "Nicolas Delaunay in Paris". Dial with white enamel cartouches on black Roman numerals, the circumference engraved with 60 minutes in Arabic numerals, the centre in gilded brass with a drapery and the figure of King Louis XIV in a portrait surrounded by two horns, one surmounted by a fleur-de-lys and the other by a sun. The base is decorated with the same motif surmounted by a frieze of shells and interlacing, a faun's head in the lower part. Regency period. Height 75 cm - Width 37 cm - Depth 16 cm The name of Nicolas Delaunay is mentioned in the Dictionnaire des Horlogers Français, Tardy, p. 170 "Juré 1731-35 died in 1743, on a 15-day clock: Nicolas Delaunay. On a Regency clock in the Musée Labadié in Marseille: N. Delaunay in Paris". Our cartel is in every way similar to the one exhibited in the Grobet-Labadié collections in Marseille. Similar models or those from the same period can be found in the Robert de Balkany collection sold at Sotheby's in Paris on 20 September 2016 or in the reference work P. Kjellberg, Encyclopédie de la Pendule française, Paris, 1997.
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