A mid-19th century French gilt metal mantel clock, the arched case with circular white enamel Roman dial, signed HRY MARC, A PARIS, flanked by the figure of a young woman classically draped and wearing a laurel garland, holding a plaque inscribed Homère Virgile Horace, the oval plinth inset with alabaster panels and pierced with foliate scrolls -- 19in. (48.2cm.) wide.