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CARTEL IN BOULLE MARQUETRY, REGENCY PERIOD Our...

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CARTEL IN BOULLE MARQUETRY, REGENCY PERIOD Our cartel of violin form is decorated with a marquetry of brown tortoiseshell and engraved brass decorated with scrolls, flowers, cartouches and foliage. It opens on the front by a glass door and at the back by a door decorated with brass marquetry on a brown tortoiseshell background. The door in front of the gilded bronze frame is decorated with a bronze displaying two putti with an hourglass, a flaming torch and accompanied by a rooster. This purely allegorical ornamental repertoire fits perfectly with the representation of time. The rooster signifies the end of the night and his cry announces the dawn of the day, the hourglass: the time that passes, the flaming torch is the fire that lights up the night. The pediment of the cartel is topped by a figure of putti sitting on a rock holding a dove. This representation is often associated with the allegory of air. Beautiful ornamentation of gilded and finely chiseled bronzes such as central cartouche and falling leafy scrolls, busts of women at the corners ending with hooves rolled up, leafy apron. Very beautiful ormolu and chased dial with twelve enamelled cartouches with Roman numerals. The console in marquetry of brass and brown tortoiseshell, decorated with gilded bronzes with heads of women in the corners and a central mascaron of a bearded man. The movement signed Ester in Paris. Parisian work, Regency period Total dimensions : height 140 cm, width : 50 cm

Galerie Nicolas Lenté
2, rue des Saints-Pères
75007 Paris