Louis XV Ormolu, Marble and Poryphyry, Pendule a Cercles Tournants Clock

Michel Stollewerck, circa 1765. signed Stollewerck A Paris, signed two train movement, verge escapement.

Catalog Note: Michel Stollenwerck was of German birth but recorded in Paris by 1730. He first established his workshop in the precincts of the Abbey St Germain des Pres in 1739 but moved to the rue de la Comedie Française by 1747. Stollenwerck had exceptional mechanical talent and specialized in musical clocks. Stollenwerck supplied clocks for the French nobility and the crowned heads of Europe including King Stanislas Leszczynski, Frederick II of Prussia and Augustus III of Saxony.