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A very fine Empire gilt bronze mounted loupe érable and ebony inlaid table regulator of eight day duration, the white enamel dial signed H. Laresche à Paris, with Roman numerals and indications with blued steel moon hands for the hours, minutes and sweep centre seconds, the movement with pin wheel escapement and a nine rod compensated pendulum with fine adjustment. The rectangular pedestal loupe érable case with ebony banding with lyre and palmette cast mounts to the frieze, the gilded bezel flanked either side by columns headed and terminated by foliate cast mounts on square bases, the four sides glazed to reveal the movement and grid iron pendulum and large bob, on an ebony banded stepped rectangular base centred by a very ornate gilt bronze mount with vase flanked by scrolled supports with swans, butterflies, flowers and fruiting vines
Paris, date circa 1810-15
Height 47.5 cm, width 26 cm, depth 17 cm.
The clockmaker H. Laresche made precision clock movements as well as more standard mechanisms. Tardy lists this maker as working from Palais Royal, Galerie des Offices from 1814 to 1815. Pierre Kjellberg in “Encyclopédie de la Pendule Française du Moyen Age au XXe Siècle”, 1997, p. 373, pl. D, illustrates an Empire black marble portico clock decorated with ornate gilt bronze mounts by H Laresche but signed Laresche Palais du Tribunal. The case style is typical of Empire period table regulators, comparing for instance with another signed on the dial Hunziker, rue de Bussy, (illustrated ibid. p. 374, pl. D). Loup érable or maple was a particularly popular wood for clock cases made during Charles X period.
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