LARGE gilt bronze HANGER

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Dec 13, 2022

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  LARGE gilt bronze HANGER, decorated with a nymph lying on a lion's body on a rock. Enamel dial with dates in a tambourine signed "Bouchet Hger du Roy". White marble base with toupie feet. Wire suspension.
  End of the 18th century.
  Height : 40 cm - Width : 62 cm. Depth : 29 cm.
  Probably Jean Louis Bouchet, received master in 1762, clockmaker of the king for the castle of Bellevue. The British Crown collections hold a similar clock. An identical clock, in white marble, attributed to Clodion, was on the mantelpiece of the salon des dames at the château de Saint Cloud.
  Provenance: sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, Mes Couturier et de Nicolaÿ, 9 December 1994, n° 112.