A small doll's head cartel in tortoise shell veneer, inlaid - Lot 247

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A small doll's head cartel in tortoise shell veneer, inlaid - Lot 247
A small doll's head cartel in tortoise shell veneer, inlaid with brass quartefoils on a blue tinted horn background. on a blue tinted horn background. Ornamentation of chased and gilded bronzes. The movement signed "Thuret à Paris". Late Louis XIV period. (Suspension modified, small lacks of scale and brass). 35 × 18 × 14.5 cm A similar cartel, also signed by Thuret, was sold in Paris on November 17, 2010 (Christies, lot 200). A similar model resting on a bracket is now in the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, illustrated in Tardy, La Pendule Française dans le Monde. Des origines à la transition Louis XV Louis XVI, Paris, 1987, p.149. It is probably Jacques-Augustin Thuret, son of Issac, clockmaker to the King and housed at the Galeries du Louvre in 1694.
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