Details
The dial with both Roman and Arabic numerals, flanked by female terms atop guilloche-paneled scrolled volute supports, surmounted by a laurel-swagged Neoclassical urn, the pierced tapering case over an oak and acorn finial
2612 in. (67.5 cm.) high, 1234 in. (32.5 cm.) wide
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 16 November 1999, lot 504.
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Charles Le Roy, maître in 1733.

A virtually-identical cartel, but with crossed-branches below the dial instead of an acanthus scroll, and the movement by Paté, is illustrated in P. Kjellberg, Encyclopédie de la Pendule Française, Paris, 1997, p. 192, fig. B.

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