A fine Empire ormolu, brass and Spanish brocatelle marble month-going astronomical skeleton clock

A fine Empire ormolu, brass and Spanish brocatelle marble month-going astronomical skeleton clock
Verneuil. Circa 1810
With spiral-beaded ormolu bezel to the white enamel Roman chapter ring signed Verneuil h.er, M.ien, gilt guilloché centre set with an enamel seconds disc, blued steel Breguet hands, conforming bezel to the painted enamel moonphase above, with moons finely decorated en grisaille and ring calibrated for its age, subsidiary calendar rings below for the day (with its symbol), date and month/zodiac, hands of blued steel, the movement with pierced-out inverted Y-shaped plates and spring barrels with large great wheels, the going train with pinwheel escapement regulated by a gridiron pendulum positioned above the clock, with adjustable crutchpiece and fronted by a thermometer with white enamel scale inscribed Elementa Suis Propriis Armis Victa, with countwheel strike on bell positioned on the back plate, the whole resting on a stepped rectangular brocatelle marble base with ormolu gallery mount matching the bezels and on brass bun feet, the movement frame on brass blocks with milled levelling knobs; original velvet-covered plinth and original glass dome (cracked)
28½ in. (72.5 cm.) high, excluding plinth and dome