An ormolu sconce known as a cartel au ruban, featuring a fem - Lot 218

An ormolu sconce known as a cartel au ruban, featuring a female mask surmounted by an antique-style fire pot adorned with canals and rosettes, with a long ribbon running through the handles. The sides are decorated with palms, and the lower part features a laurel-leaf garland, with a seeded lamp base and a frieze of fleurons. The white enameled circular dial with black Arabic and Roman numerals is signed Gille l'Ainé A Paris. Louis XVI period. Worn dial and movement. Height Height : 72 cm Note: the original drawing of a comparable cartel appears in Osmond's Livre des Desseins under number 36, INHA library, known as the cartel au ruban grand modèle. Created by Robert Osmond around 1770, this model was a great success with Parisian connoisseurs. Two examples were included in royal collections, the first delivered in 1767 for the apartments of Madame Victoire in Versailles, and the second, a few years later, for King Louis XVI, still Dauphin. Robert Osmond (1711-1789) was awarded the title of Master Bronzemaker in Paris in 1746. A champion of neoclassicism, he also produced numerous rocaille clock cases. Bibliography : - H. Ottomeyer and P. Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, Band I, Munich, 1986, p.184, fig.3.8.8 ; - Catalog of the exhibition Le château de Versailles raconte le Mobilier national, quatre siècles de création, Paris, 2010-2011, p.106-107; - Tardy, La pendule française, 2ème partie : Du Louis XVI à nos jours, Paris, 1975, p.309 Expert: Cédric Henon