Louis XVI ormolu cartel by Osmond

Antique-style wall-mounted cartel in chased and gilded bronze with matt and burnished gold, "Royal quality model" by the most prestigious craftsmen of the Louis XV - Louis XVI period: Louis-Antoine Beauvarlet, master clockmaker in Paris in 1756, and Robert Osmond, bronzier. The neoclassical case, in the form of an elongated cartouche with a base narrowed to the base of the leaves, the two front corners in the form of acanthus leaves with crooks on two lateral falls of laurel with pearls, and openwork scroll sides, is made entirely of finely chased bronze and gilded with matt and burnished gold. The projecting circular dial, molded on a laurel garland, has an open bezel with curved glass, a white enameled plate with black Roman numerals and Arabic minutes, signed "Beauvarlet à Paris", and openwork bronze hands. The top features a female mask under an oval perfume burner with fluting, rosettes and dice, the two rings supporting the ribbon drop. Back entirely in sheet bronze. Restoration of the cartel revealed the signature of the enameller Barbezat on the back of the cartel and the date 1777 (Elie Barbezat, rue Bertin Poiré in Paris, enameller from 1768).