An attractive French Louis Philippe gilt bronze automaton skeleton mantel clock, circa 1840

9.5-cm enamel dial with Roman numerals and skeletonized centre, blued Breguet hands, flat bed two train movement with Brocot escapement and gridiron pendulum, countwheel striking on a bell surmounting the A-frame, two-tier structure with four plain supports above, below four fluted columns with Corinthian capitals surrounding a cast fountain with glass rods driven by a seperate mechanism in the base imitating jets of water, rectangular base with relief moulding on a ebonized base raised on shaped feet, under a glass dome