Cartel doll head by Cressent, Paris circa 1710-1720

Rare cartel of sconce in marquetry Boulle of brass threads on a background of brown scales.

Model in the form of a "doll's head", with a shape violined and a circular upper resting on a Wall bracket with concave moat. The entire surface is plated with brown scales and inlaid with brass threads alternating decoration with floral scrolls and Bérain-style décor.
The case is luxuriously embellished with finely crafted, chiselled and gilded bronzes, including four busts of women in "espagnolettes" ending in "C" joined together making foot
offices, a central bas-relief on the door depicting Danae receiving Zeus in the form of an eagle transforming into a shower of gold, masks of mercury with intersecting caduceus, a cherub on a lattice dome openwork or ingots with grodroned friezes and Corner protectors.
The console is also encircled by a frieze mould The corners are protected by four powerful buds rams while the lower part is terminated by a large acanthus cap. The façade opens via a glass door that gives a glimpse of a Twelve-plate dial in white enamel with numerals Roman paintings in blue, on a finely engraved brass background, with the Minute figures on the borders and scrolls on the Bérain with chimeras and squirrels in the central part.

Two blued steel hands indicate the hours and minutes.

The original silk thread suspension movement is signed on the "Ducoroy Paris" plaque on the reverse.

It strikes the hours and minutes as it passes, and the quarters and On-demand hours.

Very good state of preservation.

Work attributed to Charles Cressent, Paris at the end of the Louis period XIV, beginning of the regency around 1710-1720.

Size:

Total height: 117 cm

Case: Height: 74 cm; Width: 38 cm Console : Height : 28 cm , Width :43 cm.

Similar models:
With a ram's head console:
- “Musée des Arts Décoratifs de Paris” (inv. 3889)
- Christie's London sale on 5 July 1979, lot 27.
- Sale Briscadieux Bordeaux, 26/11/2016, lot 32

Resting on a plinth:
- Palais de Fontainebleau, movement signed "Le Roy".
- Palace of Versailles, movement signed "Guiot in Paris"

Bibliography:  Alexis Pradère "Charles Cressent, sculptor, cabinetmaker of the Regent", published by Faton; Model Catalogue Raisonné Page 302