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A fine and rare late 16th century French gilt brass table clock with stamped makers mark MB Probably Mathieu Bachelet, Paris image 1
A fine and rare late 16th century French gilt brass table clock with stamped makers mark MB Probably Mathieu Bachelet, Paris image 2
A fine and rare late 16th century French gilt brass table clock with stamped makers mark MB Probably Mathieu Bachelet, Paris image 3
A fine and rare late 16th century French gilt brass table clock with stamped makers mark MB Probably Mathieu Bachelet, Paris image 4
A fine and rare late 16th century French gilt brass table clock with stamped makers mark MB Probably Mathieu Bachelet, Paris image 5
Lot 59

A fine and rare late 16th century French gilt brass table clock with stamped makers mark MB
Probably Mathieu Bachelet, Paris

Fine Clocks
16 December 2015, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £21,250 inc. premium

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A fine and rare late 16th century French gilt brass table clock with stamped makers mark MB

Probably Mathieu Bachelet, Paris
The upright rectangular case surmounted by a bell and five matching finials, the bell cupola decorated with engraved strapwork over a pierced band, the cornice pierced with a repeating pattern, the right hand side panel set with a hinged door to allow sight of the fusee and decorated with a female torso below material swags, the rear panel with mythical creatures and scrollwork in the Renaissance manner, the left hand panel with a pair of satyrs adorning a Green Man figurehead, the front panel with a River God reclining on an upturned vessel. The underside decorated with a mythical bust within a wreath of foliage, with fruit and flowers to each corner, stamped for the maker MB.

The dial with silvered Roman chapter ring framing a centre with engraved sunburst on a turned ground and single blued steel hand.

The movement of two-tier construction using four baluster and four circular turned steel pillars. the strike train mounted at the base with spring barrel and internally cut countwheel mounted to the underside. The going train with verge foliot escapement and slender gut fusee. Wound through the base, the holes marked S (sonnerie) and M (movement).

Sold with a velvet-covered wooden wall bracket with key recess. 15.5cms (6ins) high.

Footnotes

Literature:
H.M. Vehmeyer, Clocks, Their Origin and Development 1320-1880, Snoeck 2004. Item F3.

Mathieu Bachelet settled in the cite in 1580 and may have been working earlier. He was married to Catharine Langellier and their daughter was baptized in 1577 in Saint-Severin.

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