A Restauration Ormolu and Patinated Bronze Mantel Clock circa 1820

the white enamelled dial in a globe-shaped case flanked by the figure of Aurora lifting the veil of darkness, raised on a rectangular ormolu-mounted patinated bronze base.

Minor marks to the ormolu, as visible from the catalogue illustration. Very minor losses to the ormolu mounts. Areas of ormolu have been regilt. In otherwise good condition.
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An almost identical model is illustrated, P. Kjellberg, Encyclopédie de la pendule Française, Paris, 1997, p. 394, fig. C.