Jean-Baptiste-André FURET (c. 1720–1807), admitted as a mast - Lot 215

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Jean-Baptiste-André FURET (c. 1720–1807), admitted as a mast - Lot 215
Jean-Baptiste-André FURET (c. 1720–1807), admitted as a master in 1746 White marble portico clock with two leaf-decorated columns forming vases of flowers, surmounted by an urn with eagles. The enameled dial, featuring hour and minute markers in a railway-track pattern and Arabic numerals, is signed “Thuret à Paris.” Beautiful gilded and chiseled bronze ornamentation, including a beaded frieze, cascading garlands, stylized and openwork acanthus leaves, and a radiating design. The multi-lobed base, decorated with palmettes, is supported by six spindle-shaped feet. Louis XVI period. Height: 44 cm Width: 29 cm Missing parts, damage Notes & Bibliography: - Dictionnaire des horlogers Français - TARDY; clockmaker listed on pages 614–615. - Isaac Thuret (1630–1706), born in Senlis and died in Paris, was one of the greatest clockmakers of the 17th century. As clockmaker to the king and later to the Academy of Sciences, he was based at the Louvre from 1686 onward and enjoyed great renown, praised in particular by Germain Brice and Leibniz.
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