A GILT-BRONZE AND WHITE MARBLE MANTEL CLOCK BY TIFFANY AND CO. PARIS, CIRCA 1900

the white and black enamel dial inscribed Tiffany & Co. / France beneath billing doves resting on a cushion and flanked by recumbant winged sphinxes, the movement stamped TIFFANY & CO.  and numbered 8976, the pendulum similarly numbered.

Overall in good original condition with the usual traces of tarnishing. Rubbing to gilding. The front left hand side foot needs to be tightened back to the marble base, minor traces of oxidation.
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The present lot is a copy of a mantle clock designed by FJ Belanger and delivered by Lepaute in 1781 to the comte d'Artois salon de Bagatelle. See: La Folie d'Artois, ed. Antiquaires à Paris, p.129.