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Religious pendulum * Louis XIV Boulle marquetry **, gilt bronze ornamentation finely chopped, decorated with columns with Corinthian capitals, and two winged lions and griffins flanking a medallion (under the dial), Napoleon III of nineteenth century.
This clock is in very good condition, it has been fully restored. She is an exceptional and outstanding quality. The movement works but is to be revised. It is signed "Vincent Silver Medal & Co. 1855". We have the balance and the key.
A note: use wear on the dial, see photos.
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* From the mid-seventeenth century, the pendulum appeared in France replacing the mechanisms foliot clocks. The clock is a religious flagship models of King Sun. The pendulum religious Louis XIV: the case of the pendulum religious often rectangular, is surmounted by a pediment or a cove and fire pots. It is framed by pilasters or columns. His body may be in Boulle marquetry or wood veneer and accented with carved and gilded bronze. The dial, brass or gilt bronze, occupies an important place of the facade.
** Andre-Charles Boulle (1642-1732), cabinet maker and inventor of the famous Boulle marquetry. From 1666 to 1676, he has his own woodworking shop where work up to 40 people, including his own son. From 1672, King Louis XIV, on the advice of Colbert, who considers him "the most skilled cabinetmaker in Paris", it offers accommodation in the Louvre.
