Offered by Galerie William Diximus
Signature of Charles Le Roy.
In Boulle marquetry tortoise shell tortoise and brass, ebony veneer, carved and varnished bronze ornamentation stamped with crowned C, the enameled cartridge dial centered on a musical trophy and inscribed in a fiddled violin box of a child and decorated at its base with a phoenix with spread wings resting on horns of plenty, the movement signed Cles Le Roy A Paris, the console adorned with male masks feathered and adorned with a cul-de-lamp associated.
H .: 124 cm. (48 ¾ in.); L .: 45 cm. (17 ¾ in.); P .: 21 cm. (8 ¼ in.)
Charles Le Roy, received master in 1733
The crowned "C" punch was affixed between 1745 and 1749