Bracket clock
Boucheret
Category
Horology
Date
1715 - 1774
Materials
Tortoiseshell, brass and walnut.
Measurements
279 mm (H)
Place of origin
Paris
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Clandon Park, Surrey
NT 1440580.1
Summary
[Salvaged] Small Louis XV Boulle bracket clock by Boucheret, Paris, the shaped and engraved dial with blue and white enamel numerals and signed similarly to the backplate, the eight-day movement with outside numbered locking plate, the cartouche-shaped tortoiseshell case faced with Boulle. Was mounted on matching corbel-shaped bracket (1440580.2, not salvaged).
Provenance
Bequeathed to the National Trust in 1968 by Mrs Hannah Gubbay
Marks and inscriptions
Boucheret, Paris
Makers and roles
Boucheret, horologist