Mantel clock (pendule de chiminée), Clockmaker: Paul Gudin Le Jeune (French, recorded 1739, died 1755), clock ca. 1750, figures decorated ca. 1737/38, French, Paris with German, Meissen and French, Vincennes case, Case: hard-paste and soft-paste porcelain, with gilded-bronze mounts; Dial: white enamel with blue numerals for hours and blue numerals for minutes; Movement: brass and steel, Overall: 17 1/2 × 11 1/4 × 8 3/4 in. (44.5 × 28.6 × 22.2 cm); Diameter (back plate): 3 3/4 in. (9.5 cm), Horology, Clockmaker: Paul Gudin Le Jeune (French, recorded 1739, died 1755), Parisian guilds placed restrictions on the materials that could be incorporated in clockcases. However, entrepreneurs known as marchands-merciers circumvented these rules by combining parts obtained from various sources, resulting in clocks as elaborate as this one.

Mantel clock (pendule de chiminée), Clockmaker: Paul Gudin Le Jeune (French, recorded 1739, died 1755), clock ca. 1750, figures decorated ca. 1737/38, French, Paris with German, Meissen and French, Vincennes case, Case: hard-paste and soft-paste porcelain, with gilded-bronze mounts; Dial: white enamel with blue numerals for hours and blue numerals for minutes; Movement: brass and steel, Overall: 17 1/2 × 11 1/4 × 8 3/4 in. (44.5 × 28.6 × 22.2 cm); Diameter (back plate): 3 3/4 in. (9.5 cm), Horology, Clockmaker: Paul Gudin Le Jeune (French, recorded 1739, died 1755), Parisian guilds placed restrictions on the materials that could be incorporated in clockcases. However, entrepreneurs known as marchands-merciers circumvented these rules by combining parts obtained from various sources, resulting in clocks as elaborate as this one

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