White and blue cookie clock, probably from the Nast manufatcure, with a quadrangular base with cut sides decorated with a frieze in low relief with allegories of geometry, astronomy and literature, supporting a terminal flanked by half-columns with flower falls and topped with a figure of Venus and a love around a flower basket. Garnished with chased and gilded bronzes such as stars, frieze of pearls and olives, feet and rosettes. The circular white enamelled dial with Arabic and Roman numerals in black signed Le Faucheur A Paris (accidents, missing parts and restorations). Late Louis XVI period. Height : 54 54 - Width : 30 - Depth : 12 cm Note : It is probably the watchmaker Jean-Ignace Lefaucheur, son of the watchmaker Alexandre Lefaucheur, holder of the office of valet de chambre-horloger ordinaire du Roi, in survival of his father. Provenance: Sale of June 22, 1997, Maître Loiseau Schmitz Digard, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, lot 157. Expert : Mr Cédric Hénon.
Estimate
€2,000 - €3,000
Result
€1,800
Buyer's premium
25%
White and blue cookie clock, probably from the Nast manufatcure, with a quadrangular base with cut sides decorated with a frieze in low relief with allegories of geometry, astronomy and literature, supporting a terminal flanked by half-columns with flower falls and topped with a figure of Venus and a love around a flower basket. Garnished with chased and gilded bronzes such as stars, frieze of pearls and olives, feet and rosettes. The circular white enamelled dial with Arabic and Roman numerals in black signed Le Faucheur A Paris (accidents, missing parts and restorations).
Late Louis XVI period.
Height : 54 54 - Width : 30 - Depth : 12 cm
Note : It is probably the watchmaker Jean-Ignace Lefaucheur, son of the watchmaker Alexandre Lefaucheur, holder of the office of valet de chambre-horloger ordinaire du Roi, in survival of his father.
Provenance: Sale of June 22, 1997, Maître Loiseau Schmitz Digard, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, lot 157.
Expert : Mr Cédric Hénon.
Sale
Sunday 14 May 2023・14:00 (Europe/Paris)
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1 ter, boulevard de la République
92210 Saint-Cloud