A gilt-bronze mounted longcase regulator, early Louis XV, circa 1730
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October 11, 05:25 PM GMT
Estimate
60,000 - 100,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
A gilt-bronze mounte𒊎d longcase regulator, 🦹early Louis XV, circa 1730
amaranth and bois satiné, richly decorated with a mask of Time, foliage and dragons, with an enameled cartouche signed Lefaucheur à Paris
height 75¾in.; width 29½in.; dept💫h 10 in.; 193 cm; 75 cm; 26 cm.
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Régulateur de parquet en placage d'amaranthe et satiné, bronzes dorés figurant un masque du Temps et des dragons, début d'époque Louis XV, vers 1730 avec un cartouche émaillé signé "Lefavchevr à Paris"
height 75¾in.; 🌞width 29½in.; depth 10 in.; 193 cm; 75 cm; 26 cm.
Buvelot Collection;
Galerie Segoura, Paris;
Djahanguir Riahi Collection;
Galerie Aveline Jea🔯n-Marie Rossi, Paris, 200🀅8.
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Collection Buvelot;
Galerie Segoura, Paris;
Collection Djahanguir Riahi;
Galerie ꦉAveline Jean-Marie Rossi, Paris, 2008.
Alexandre Lefaucheur became maître horloger in 1729 and was appointed horloger du roi in 1748. He is recorded at Pont au Change in 17ꦑ48 and later at Quai de l'Horloge between 1772 and 1780.
A very similar parquetry régulateur was exhibited Elements of Style: The Art of the Bronze Mount in 18th and 19th century France, Rosenberg & Stiebel, New York, 13 April - 15 June, 1984 and illustrated in the exhibition catalogue n° 7. It shows the same overall shape and the characteristic dragons on either side of the heavily molded arch of the clock's l🍷ower sectio🍃n.
Another régulateur by Lefaucheur 𓃲;was sold, Bonhams London, ꦡ11 July 2018, lot 27.
