LYRUS HANGER WITH CHINOIS in finely chased or... Lot 213

LYRUS HANGER WITH CHINOIS in finely chased or gilt bronze and white Carrara marble; at the base a Chinese man taking shelter under an umbrella flanked by two pineapples; the openwork frame with triangles; the circumference underlined by pearled foliage and corollas; the base with vases full of flowers or fruits and friezes of interlacing. Parisian work of the Louis XVI period, ca. 1785 (small missing decoration). The movement brought back under the Second Empire by "Villard à Paris", with a bimetallic board and annular dial indicating the hours in Roman numerals and the minutes in Arabic numerals in increments of fifteen. H. 61, W. 35, D. 15 cm. We have found two models quite similar to the one we are presenting, both designed by the watchmaker Joseph- Charles-Paul Bertrand, known as Charles Bertrand (1746-89), one is dated 1785