A Louis XVI white marble, ormolu and blued steel clock circa 1775, the mechanism signed Fortin a Paris

With minor chips, abrasions and restoration to marble. Ormolu appears to have been cleaned recently. Putto's torch slightly bent and is loose. Putto possibly later. Minor scratches to blued steel.
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A very similar tempietto-form clock with identical ormolu mounts in its frieze but with an ormolu dome, globe and stepped base is in the British Royal Collection, see Cedric Jagger, Royal Clocks - The British Monarchy and its Timekeepers 1300-1900, London, 1983, p. 150.