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A corbel clock Régence oak and other woods gold decoration on a red background "Birds and flowers", carved and gilt bronze mounts "Grotesque masks, spagnolettes, volutes and windings", top with bronze sculpture "Minerva", door with sculptures "Three Fates", engraved and chiselled brass dial with Roman blue numerals on enamel reserves, eight-day autonomy, hour and half-hour striking on bell, pendulum regulation on the dial French small restoration, wear to the gilt, minor faults, traces of wood insects movement and dial marked DeLISLE A PARIS Dimensões (altura x comprimento x largura) - (relógio) 113 cm; (mísula) 43 cm; (total) 156 cm Notes: "Master watchmaker in 1717, Jean-Louis Delisle (or De L'Isle), published in 1719 "Methode sur la construction d'un gnomon pour régler une Pendule au soleil".In the Ilbert Collection of the British Museum, donated after the death of Courtenay Adrian Ilbert (1888-1956), there is a repetition pocket watch, in a silver case, by DeLisle.The composition of the « Three Parcae» present in this watch is based on the artistic repertoire of the famous André-Charles Boulle (1642-1732). As evidenced in his inventory, one year after his death and published by Jean-Pierre Samoyault (see Jean-Pierre Samoyault. André-Charles Boulle et sa famille. Nouvelles recherches, nouveaux documents. Genève: Droz, 1979)."