A French gilt-bronze and blued-steel orbit clock garniture by E. De. Labroue, Paris circa 1890

emblematic of the cloth of dusk being drawn over the earth, three putti and two doves raised on a cloudbank, the spherical clockcase signed E. DE. LABROUE. Ft. DE BRONZES. A PARIS, the movement with the Labroue seal and numbered 328, the eleven-light candelabra molded as putti raising aloft acanthus-scrolled candlebranches. Possibly associated.

The bronzier and fondeur E. De Labroue gained the trust of the major sculptors of the 19^th century, allowing the firm to reproduce in bronze important carved marble sculptures.  See for instance a cast in bronze by De Labroue of the celebrated white marble figure entitled 'Une heure de la nuit' by Joseph-Michel-Ange Pollet.  This bronze was exhibited at the Exposition Universelle in 1855 and is now in the Museum at Rheims.  Pradier and Carrier-Belleuse also gave the right to De Labroue to reproduce their work.