REGENCE TIME Regulator with dragons in violet... Lot 55

REGENCE TIME Regulator with dragons in violet wood veneer, curved and moving, opening with a door in front. It rests on a plinth base. The clock movement is in the center of the doll's head. Ornamentation of chased and gilded bronzes: clasps, rocaille bezel, mouldings. Some bronzes are marked with a crowned "C". Later clock movement signed Mangeant N° 297 A Paris (mastered in 1734) in bronze composed of 25 cartouches in royal blue enamel, with Roman numerals for the hours and Arabic for the minutes. Height : 202,5 202,5 W 49 D 24,5 cm. (Restoration of use for the case; suspension of the movement modified). Provenance: Orléans collection. A Regency period dragon floor clock. Violet veneer case with a bronze clock movement signed "Mangeant N° 297 A Paris" (master clockmaker in 1734). The crowned "C" corresponds to a tax in force between 1745 and 1749. It is a tax at the time of the war of the Austrian succession when the financial needs of the State are important. This tax concerns "any old or new work of bronze, pure copper, cast iron, mixed copper, forged, ground, beaten, flattened, engraved, gilded, silvered and coloured, without any exception" executed or sold during this four-year period. This explains why some works dating before 1745, from the Louis XIV and Regency periods like this regulator, may have been controlled and marked with the crowned "C".