A RESTAURATION ORMOLU MANTEL CLOCK

Details
A RESTAURATION ORMOLU MANTEL CLOCK

SECOND QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

The circular dial with roman chapters signed 'Le Roy hr. du Roi Palais Royal à Paris' within a rectangular case surmounted by a warrior's helmet and sword flanked by Cupid in military dress holding a shield cast with a heart pierced by an arrow, on a rectangular plinth with applied ribbon-tied flaming torches centering quivers of arrows alternating berried-laurel wreathes enclosing lyres, raised on stylized toupie feet
12¼in. (31cm.) high