An Empire ormolu, patinated bronze and red marble mantel clock, Mugnier, Paris, circa 1805

6½-inch enamel dial with concentric date and serpent hand, signed Mugnier, rue de la Loi, bell striking movement with star cut count wheel and anchor escapement with later Brocot suspension, the drum surmounted by an eagle and flanked by adorsed male and female seated figures, the breakfront bow-ended plinth with finely chiselled mounts and reeded feet, on a further marble stand

Dial has minor chips to winding holes, old damage and repair between I & II. Movement is complete but much in need of a clean, later Brocot suspension and pendulum, crack to count wheel with old soft solder repair which could be much improved. Case has old minor chips to edges of marble, retaining the fine quality original gilding and patination though a little dirty. With replaced pendulum and a winder.
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Mugnier is recorded as working in rue de la Loi between 1800 and 1806. He worked for the famous watchmaker Abraham-Louis Breguet. 

This clock is a variation on a well known model based upon a drawing executed circa 1785, attributed to the celebrated ciseleur-doreur François Rémond. The two seated figures derive from models of L'Etude and La Philosophie created after a design by Louis-Simon Boizot in 1780 for reproduction in biscuit porcelain for the Sèvres factory. The marchand-mercier Dominique Daguerre commissioned Rémond to design the clock to incorporate Boizot's figures. In 1788, Daguerre supplied two clocks of this model to Louis XVI, for the Château de St. Cloud.