“Cartel d’alcove”: small Louis XV wall clock, signed Beeckaert à Paris

minimal 8-day round movement, verge escapement, thread suspended pendulum, quarter pull repeater on a single bell, signed back plate;

multi coloured enamal dial, blue ciphers for the hours, black Arabic ciphers for the minutes, signed in the centre, engraved, pierced and gilded brass hands;

scrolling fire gilded brass case;

Height 38 cm, around 1760.

Literature : Dictionnaire des Horlogers français – Tardy : Jean François Beeckaert, master in 1746, three successive workshops in Paris until 1783.

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