Architecturally styled corner clock with all sides in gilded - Lot 228

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Architecturally styled corner clock with all sides in gilded - Lot 228
Architecturally styled corner clock with all sides in gilded bronze. Sides adorned with lion’s heads. Front panel with openwork latticework, decorated with foliage and lion’s paws. Enamel dial signed Ferdinand Berthoud. Suspended by a wire. Wooden base. Louis XVI period. (One ring needs to be reattached). Height: 37 cm - Width: 20 cm Ferdinand Berthoud (1727–1807), admitted as a master in 1753, clockmaker and mechanic to the king and the Navy, contributor to Diderot’s Encyclopédie, was the inventor of numerous improvements in clockmaking."
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