Cartel having been the object of a diplomatic gift for Turkey. It is equipped with a movement of the watchmaker Jean-Baptiste Dutertre in Paris.
This cartel in Boulle marquetry, first part is decorated on the pediment with a bronze pattern of helmet, sword, quiver, standard, etc..
The sides are decorated with bronze falls with flowers. It rests on four feet in the shape of lion claws.
Jean-Baptiste Dutertre (1684 - 1734), his widow born Catherine Le Noir will continue to practice quai des Orfèvres;
It should be noted that the dial of this clock is a Turkish dial. A number of clocks made in Paris with movements from Parisian clockmakers have dials with Turkish numerals.
Turkey was very fond of French clocks in the 18th century. It was not uncommon for French ambassadors "to the Sublime Great Door" to offer clocks to the Sultan. This was the case for Monsieur de Ferriol, sent on embassy in 1700. When he presented his credentials to Sultan Mustapha II, he gave him a gift of pistols, mirrors with their gilded wooden frames, a barometer and a sumptuous marquetry clock from the workshop of André-Charles Boulle.
This vogue continued during the Louis XV period, the Residence of Munich preserves a clock of Passemant in gilded bronze and flowers of Meissen with a dial with Turkish figures made for the sultan Mahmud I.
