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A LOUIS XV SMALL ORMOLU STRIKING BRACKET CLOCK ON WALL BRACKET: 'CARTEL D'APPLIQUE'
- BY VANDERCRUSE DE LA CROIX, PARIS, CIRCA 1750

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A LOUIS XV SMALL ORMOLU STRIKING BRACKET CLOCK ON WALL BRACKET: 'CARTEL D'APPLIQUE'
BY VANDERCRUSE DE LA CROIX, PARIS, CIRCA 1750
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    $15,000 - $25,000

Sale Information

Sale 2350
500 Years: Decorative Arts Europe, Including Oriental Carpets
21 - 22 October 2010
New York, Rockefeller Plaza Buy Catalog





Lot Description

A LOUIS XV SMALL ORMOLU STRIKING BRACKET CLOCK ON WALL BRACKET: 'CARTEL D'APPLIQUE'
BY VANDERCRUSE DE LA CROIX, PARIS, CIRCA 1750
CASE: the clock and bracket of scrolling foliate form, the former with bagpipe mount to the front, silk-backed pierced side frets, replaced rear cover plate, possibly originally conceived with some further mounts; on waisted openwork bracket DIAL: white enamel and signed VANDERCRUSE . DE LA CROIX/PARIS, pierced ormolu hands MOVEMENT: twin barrels, silk suspension for recoil escapement, calibrated countwheel strike on bell, the back plate with repeat signature; pendulum, winding key
20 in. (51 cm.) high, 10½ in. (27 cm.) wide, 4¼ in. (11 cm.) deep, including bracket

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Acquired from La Pendulerie, Paris.

Lot Notes

Three makers of this name (a father and two sons) worked in Paris in the 18th Century. Jacques-François Vandercruse-La Croix (1724-1796) was the son of François, a master cabinet-maker in Paris, brother to another master cabinet-maker, Roger, as well as brother-in-law to the master cabinet-makers Jean- François and Simon Oeben, Jean-Henri Riesener, Simon Guillaume and founder-chaser Antoine Ravrio. An ouvrier-libre he was established in Grande rue du Faubourg-Saint-Antoine, an area where the majority of cabinet-makers (ébénistes) settled. See J-D. Augarde, Les Ouvriers du Temps, Geneva, 1996, p. 404.
An ormolu bracket clock of very closely related design is illustrated in P. Kjellberg, Encyclopédie de La Pendule Française du Moyen Age au XXe siècle, Paris, 1997, p. 94, fig. B.

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