Cartel and its base of lamp of violonnée form... Lot 21

Cartel and its base of lamp of violonnée form in marquetry "Boulle" of brass, tortoiseshell, polychrome horn engraved of flowers and branches and rich ornamentation of gilded bronze. The white enamelled dial indicates the hours in Roman numerals, the minutes in Arabic numerals. The cartel is topped with a plant flame, the dial surround decorated with plant motifs and shells. Movement and dial by Noël Baltazar (?-1786) in Paris, received master in 1717. Louis XV period. Cartel : Height 57 cm Width 24 cm. Bottom of the lamp : Height 23 Width 30 Depth 17 cm. Total height 80 cm (accidents, missing parts, mechanism to be revised) From the castle of a former mayor of Chartres during the Restoration