A LOUIS XIV ORMOLU-MOUNTED TORTOISESHELL AND BRASS-INLAID MANTEL CLOCK circa 1700, signed Thuret, the movement signed Thuret a Paris

Signed enamel plate with cracks and small chips. With scattered age and construction cracks, dents and abrasions. Tortoiseshell with scattered cracks, small losses, restorations and minor lifting in areas. Bras inlay with minor breaks, losses, minor lifting and some oxidation. Brass and tortoiseshell with thin clear varnish. Ormolu with rubbing in areas, some oxidation and surface dirt. Hands loose. In good condition.
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Only three versions of this clock are known: two, one of of which is slighlty different as it is surmounted by a finial depicting a single putto with a tambourine, are in the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, and an identical one sold Ader-Picard-Tajan, Palais d'Orsay, June 13, 1979.