A LOUIS XVI CARVED GILTWOOD CARTEL CLOCK
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A LOUIS XVI CARVED GILTWOOD CARTEL CLOCK

BY BARBIER LE JEUNE, CIRCA 1776-1780

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A LOUIS XVI CARVED GILTWOOD CARTEL CLOCK
BY BARBIER LE JEUNE, CIRCA 1776-1780
Of lyre form, surmounted by a flute and a quiver containing bow and arrows, the sides mounted with rams' head issuing flowering garlands, the lower body with scrolls and oak-leaf garlands, the dial inscribed Invenit & Fecit Barbier Le Jeune Reçu a L'academie, the movement with a pin-palette dead-beat escapement, knife-edge suspension, two-train striking movement, with a two-count strike and a grid-iron pendulum, the movement signed Barbier Le Jeune Paris
57 in. (144.7 cm.) high, 20 ½ in. (52 cm.) wide
來源
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, Monaco, 22-23 June 1991, lot 468.
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Elizabeth Seigel
Elizabeth Seigel

拍品專文

Charles-François Barbier, known as ‘Le Jeune’, became a maître horloger in 1770. Initially installed at the Pont Marie, in 1776 he is recorded at the Quai des ormes and in 1786 at 23 Palais Royal. In 1772 he created for Louis XV an extraordinary musical clock depicting the façade of Versailles.

An announcement in 1776 of 'découverts nouvelles dans les sciences' describes Barbier’s creation of a lyre-form clock with ‘balancier mouvant’ which could well describe the clock offered here:

"Le Sr. Barbier le jeune, horloger approuvé de l’académie royale des sciences de Paris, & demeurant dans la même ville, sur le pont Marie, est le premier inventeur d’un balancier mouvant ; du centre de la lentille il sort trois aiguilles qui battent les secondes, marquent les heures & les minutes, le tout avec la plus grande justesse ; elle sonne aussi les heures & les demi-heures. Ce balancier est artistiquement placé dans une lyre dont les cordes sont toujours en mouvement ; l’auteur en a placé une au-dessus de sa porte dès l’année 1776."

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