Amphora clock in chased and gilded bronze with... Lot 280

Amphora clock in chased and gilded bronze with swan-neck decoration on the handles, white enamelled dial with Roman numerals signed "Le Roy de Madame à Paris", quadrangular base decorated with palmettes, turret feet. Hand-wound mechanical movement numbered "N°307" and "L46I". French work, early 19th century Height: 40 cm (Restoration to the dial, bronze split at the top under a swan's beak) Condition report available on request: contact@neo-encheres.com BIBLIOGRAPHY For a similar model: Pierre Kjellberg, L'Encyclopédie de la Pendule Française du Moyen-âge au XXe siècle, éd. de l'Amateur, Paris, 1997, p. 378, ill. C.