An important French Régence Boulle work cartel clock, marked 'G.J. Champion à Paris', ca. 1730, H 126 cmA large cartel clock on its original console, dark tortoiseshell with inlaid brass and decorated with gilt bronze mounts of cupids making music and playing with a dog. The enamelled dial and the inside mechanism is marked 'G.J. Champion à Paris'.Guillaume Isidore Champion was born in 1687 and became 'Garde' (deputy principal) of the guilt of clockmakers of Paris in 1731. He later worked in the Rue St. Paul and finally died in the Rue Aubry des Boucher in 1765.A similar clock is part of the collection of the 'Rijksmuseum' in Amsterdam: https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/nl/collectie/BK-NM-13187