A Napoleon III gilt bronze and Paris porcelain striking urn clock, with revolving white enamel Roman and Arabic chapters, the blue ground vase shaped body painted with a scene of courtiers in a garden landscape within a jewelled border and gilt foliate ornament, the twin acanthine scroll handles modelled with female masks, surmounted by a group depicting naked children on a rocky shoreline, one hauling a fishing net, on a leaf cast spreading foot, flanked by amorini supporting a central vacant escutcheon, on an oval plinth with gadrooned gallery -- 24¾in. (62.8cm.) high.