Adam & Eve, an oak mantel clock by Paul Grégoire 1930's

solid oak, modelled as a cross carved with the heads of Adam and Eve underneath the tree with the serpent, surrounded by wavy ornaments, the dial of painted copper, with key and pendulum  

The family of the artist

Frans Leidelmeijer, Amsterdam

Jacobs 2000, pp. 580 - 581

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Sculptor Paul Grégoire (1915 - 1988), trained at the Rijksacademie in Amsterdam and was a student of a.o. Mari Andriessen before becoming a teacher at the Rijksacademie himself. The early work here offered shows the influence of the religious-symbolist style of his father, the versatile artist Jean Grégoire (1887 - 1960)