An attractive French Empire ormolu and bronze ' au bon sauvage' mantel clock, circa 1805

8-cm enamel dial with Roman numerals, fleur-de-lis hands, flat bottomed countwheel bell striking movement with anchor escapement and silk suspended pendulum, cotton bale case flanked by a patinated bronze porter holding a pipe and a rope, an anchor and a drum on the other side, canted base with a high relief depicting putti loading a ship, raised on drum shaped feet