AN ORMOLU AND SEVRES-PATTERN BISCUIT PORCELAIN MANTEL CLOCK, the circular glazed enamelled dial with both Roman and Arabic numerals signed Fd. Berthoud Horloger du Roy AParis, the octagonal stiff-leaf drum surmounted by a pierced foliate cresting with cooing doves, the whole supported upon a gadrooned and lambrequin-draped stand with pieds-de-bîche, flanked by bisque groups of Venus and Cupid after Falconet, the foliate-moulded bow-ended rectangular plinth above a beaded, panelled frieze with a relief of playful putto flanked by foliate-sprays on a bluedsteel ground, on reeded tapering toupie feet, the , later movement stamped 829 C 341 METAILLE D'OR PARIS 1900 Samuel Martin 60, stamped 3393 to the underside, the porcelain inscribed Falconet and bearing the Sèvres interlaced L mark, 19th Century