Allegorical clock with the vine of Louis XVI period... Lot 77

Allegorical clock with the vine of Louis XVI period in gilt bronze and white marble, the enamelled dial with indications of hours, minutes and dates, surmounted by a young draped woman feeding doves with a grape and posing on four arched uprights with claw feet and surmounted by heads of fauns, and decorated with garlands of vine shoots and music attributes, the terrace decorated with a Love standing on a stool and a small Bacchus drinking and sitting on a barrel, the oval base in white marble with twisted flutes and decorated with an ormolu frieze with small fauns and a love playing with a goat and two small wine ewers placed in a niche. Height : 52 cm - Width : 46 cm (similar model reproduced in the Encyclopedia of the French clock by Pierre Kjellberg, p. 251)