a late louis xvi ormolu-mounted white, black and bardiglio marble mantel clock

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a late louis xvi ormolu-mounted white, black and bardiglio marble mantel clock
The circular enamelled dial with arabic numerals inscribed Breant Baillet à Paris, within a drum case surmounted by an obelisk with a ball-finial mounted with a military trophy, the portico surmounted by conforming obelisk finials, above spreading beaded supports mounted with pastoral trophies and on spreading columns, the stepped base mounted with flower-heads, on turned waisted feet, restorations
68.5cm. high x 45cm. wide x 16cm. deep

Lot Essay

Possibly Jean-Nicolas-Michel Bréant, who became maître in 1778, and was based in the Rue du Bac between 1781 and 1787 and in the rue Notre-Dame des Champs in 1789.

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