A CONSULAT ORMOLU MANTEL CLOCK
The dial signed Mesnil à Paris, Circa 1800
The white enamelled dial with Roman chapter ring and quarter-hour Arabic chapter ring set with pierced hands, within a machined bezel on a tassled drapery, the reverse similarly-decorated, suspended from a the frieze of a table on caryatid term legs surmounted by a woman seated in a X-frame tabouret playing harp, on a rectangular base, the front set with a Mercury mask flanked by scrolled acanthus, on griffon legs
17in. (43cm) high, 9¾in. (25cm) wide, 5¾in. (14.5cm) deep
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Mesnil is recorded as working on Charnier des Innocents in 1806
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