A rare Empire ormolu and patinated bronze automaton carousel clock, attributed to Vaillant à Paris circa 1810

Very minor chips to enamel of dial at winding hole and fine hairline crack. Finial of shaft probably associated. With some rubbing to ormolu; most extensive on globe finial, upper section of shaft and base. Patinated bronze with light rubbing. Traces of surface dirt. In god condition.
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The name of Louis-Jacques Vaillant is generally associated with this model.  Vaillant in 1787 was named a "maitre horloger".  In 1789 he established himself in the Rue du Four-Sainte Honoré, a decade later in Rue de Tixanderie.

A comparable ormolu example was sold Sotheby's London, 10 April, 2006, lot 37.

An identical model is illustrated P. Kjellberg, Encyclopedie de la Pendule Francaise, Paris, 1997, p. 447, fig. F.