LARGE RELIGIOUS HANGER veneered with brown... - Lot 252 - Aguttes

LARGE RELIGIOUS HANGER veneered with brown tortoiseshell with inclusions of brass fillets. Important ornamentation of chased and gilded bronze in the form of busts of women, scrolls and roosters, mascaron and winged sphinxes. The upper part is crowned with a crowing rooster with spread wings, a goat's head and bronze rams accompanying four fire pots. The dial with enamelled plates, signed Pierre Goret in Paris. Signature also engraved on the plate of the movement. Louis XIV period Height : 68 cm - Width : 38 cm Depth : 14 cm (Restorations) PROVENANCE Former Bogdanoff collection. Pierre Goret seems to have been born in Abbeville around 1660, where his father Charles Goret held the rank of bourgeois and was already well versed in clock making, which he traded. It is likely that the Gorets had been working as clockmakers in Abbeville for a long time, Abbeville being a city where clockmaking excelled since at least the 16th century. Pierre Goret settled in Paris in the 1680s and is mentioned in the archives as a clockmaker. His inventory after death was drawn up in 1733.