LOUIS XV PERIOD PARQUET REGULATOR Stamped by Balthazar Lieutaud Veneered with violet wood and amaranth, decorated with chased and gilt bronze, the white enamel dial signed "Noel Baltazar à Paris", Roman numerals for the hours, Arabic numerals for the minutes, openwork gilt brass hands, central seconds with blued steel hand; brass movement, Harrison-type compensated balance with nine rods, a single cylindrical weight, stamped B.LIEUTAUD on the back. H. 199 cm (78 1/4 in.) l. 52 cm (20 1/2 in.) P. 21 cm (8 1/4 in.) Balthazar Lieutaud, master in 1749 Provenance: French taste: collection of a great European connoisseur. A Louis XV gilt-bronze mounted, kingwood and amaranth longcase clock, stamped by Balthazar Lieutaud *Information for buyers: If you are leaving the EU, you may need to obtain a CITES re-export certificate, which is the responsibility of the future buyer. *Information to the buyers : For an exit from the EU, a CITES re-export certificate will be necessary, at the buyer's expense. For a "Silvestre à Paris" regulator with a case by Lieutaud very similar to ours, but with a solid door, see G. Wannenes, Le più belle pendole francesi, da Luigi XIV all'Impero, Milan, 1991, p. 53. A similar one, with a glass door, in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, is reproduced in Tardy, La pendule française, 1981, ill. 321.