A fine and imposing Louis XVI gilt bronze mantel clock
Corniquet à Chaillot
The oval section urn surmounted by a floral bouquet cast in the round, over oak leaf moulding and gadrooned shoulder, flanked by large goat mask mounted volute handles supporting ribbon tied laurel festoons, over the acanthus moulded fluted socle, raised on the stepped, foliate moulded rectangular base on toupie feet, the signed 6.25 inch enamel Roman and Arabic dial with pierced gilt hands, indistinctly signed to the lower edge, the twin train drum movement with shaped lower edges to the plates, outside countwheel strike on a bell, anchor escapement and later Brocot suspension. 76cm (30in)
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