BOURRETTE A PARIS, Louis XVI style mantel clock

white marble, gilded bronze, glass, enamel, steel; height 36.7 cm, width 24.7 cm, depth 11 cm;
France, Paris, 3rd third of 19th century.
Marble base, rectangular in plan, with half drum risalite, supported on 4 legs - bronze spools. Arched front decorated with an appliqué with a motif of stylized flowers and rosettes on the sides. The body in the form of a cannelled semi-column, with volute-acanthus flows on the sides, with the top decorated with a relief palm leaf. In the finial - a figure of a seated putto with a torch and an hourglass. The dial is circular, covered with white enamel, with Arabic hour and minute divisions; at the bottom the inscription: "Bourrette A Paris." Delicate, openworked hands. Shield in the form of a convex glass, framed by a motif of pearls, laurel tendrils and 4-petalled flowers. Similar crayfish around the flat glass of the back door. On the mechanism plate no: "4242".