A gilt-bronze and Meissen porcelain desk clock circa 1745

modelled by J.Eberlein, as a gardener standing before a tree stump holding a basket of fruit, wearing a yellow hat, white jacket painted with indianische Blumen, and turquoise breeches, mounted as an inkstand with inkwell and glass liner, beneath two branches set with porcelain flowers and surmounted by a candle nozzle and foilate drip pan, the clock with white enamel dial, fitted with an earlier fusee watch movement indistinctly signed Festu à Paris (some restoration to hands and toes on one foot, one flower lacking, typical chips to flowers)

restoration to toes of right foot, both hands and some fruits, some typical chips to flowers
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