A good and attractive French Empire ormolu and bronze sculptural mantel clock, Charles Le Roy, circa 1815

12.5-cm enamel dial with Roman numerals signed Ch.les Le Roy, Breguet hands, movement with anchor escpament and countwheel striking on bell, silk suspended pendulum, stepped ormolu case covered by a drape with a griffins and scroll mount surmounted by books, a well cast and chiselled patinated bronze figure of a classical lady personifying STUDY leaning on the books, stepped ormolu base incorporating a high relief depicting putti studying and performing the arts, plinth with acanthus relief moulding raised on bun feet

See for a comparable clock Ottomeyer and Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, who attribute the bronze figure to Pierre-Victor Ledure. Lit.; Ottomeyer und Pröschel Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich 1989, pp. 349.