Lot 261

EBONISED WOOD LONGCASE CLOCK LOUIS XV.
Paris. Ca. 1740. Julien Le Roy.

Ebonised wood. Gilt bronze applications. Enamel cartouches. Richly scalloped, single-doored pendulum case. Round, scalloped top with Chronos as finial. Round dial with Roman hour cartouches and Arabic minute cartouches, central second, date display above the VI, and central alarm-setting. 8-day movement with quarter-hour chime on three bells and alarm
. Height 236cm.
Inscribed on the backplate 'Julien Le Roy A Paris'.
Condition B. (P/G).

Provenance:
Collection Friedrich Wilhelm Waffenschmidt, Cologne.

Literature:
Tardy: Dictionnaire des Horlogers Francais, Paris 1972. The maker is mentioned on p. 394.