a fine monumental napoleon III ormolu and patinated bronze sculptural pendule a cercles tournants, Paris circa 1870

the clock movement contained within a terrestrial globe with enamelled rings and snake's head pointer, the finely chased globe held by three putti, one kneeling by an overturned vase emblematic of the ocean above a rockwork base resting on a spreading base mounted with massive accanthus corbels, applied with foliage and carved with guilloche, raised on a yellow and white gray-veined marble stop-fluted column.

Sold, Sotheby's, London, March 1, 1991, lot 161

This monumental clock is after a rare eighteenth century model, one example of which is conserved in the Victoria and Albert Museum, illustrated, Tardy, French Clocks the World Over, Paris, 1981, p. 101.  The celebrated collector, the 4^th Marquess of Hertford, owned an eighteenth century version of the clock with a movement by Jean Romilly which he kept at the château de Bagatelle, the former home of the Comte d’Artois.  Inherited by Sir Richard Wallace, and later by Sir John Murray Scott, the clock was eventually sold by the latter, Christie’s, London, June 24-26, 1913, lot 258, for £241.10s to the dealer Wertheimer.  This clock was photographed in the salon at Bagatelle by Charles Marville, reproduced, B. Pons, French Period Rooms 1650-1800, Dijon, 1995, p. 60.