A FRENCH ORMOLU STRIKING CARTEL CLOCK

This 'picturesque' cloud-wreathed wall-clock, with time revealed by torch-bearing cupid attending Apollo's dawn companion Aurora, proved a popular pattern such as the version with movement by Julien Le Roy (d.1748) illustrated P. Kjellberg, Encyclopedie de la pendule francaise, Paris, 1997 , p.101)