An Empire ormolu mantel clock, the twin train movement striking the half hours on a steel bell, the circular enamelled dial with Roman chapters, enclosed within case cast as a draped table surmounted by an urn with adjacent figure of a classical maiden, seated on a klismos at a table reading, and raised above a plinth with anthemion cast border, above verde antico marble base with turned feet 33cm high
Note: See Tardy ?La Pendule Francaise1, vol. II, p. 363 for similar clock
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