Mantel clock with putti

Gilded and patinated bronze; height 35 cm; width 34 cm; depth 17 cm.
France, 2nd half of 19th century.
Richly decorated base on an oval plan; mounted clock mechanism enclosed in a sphere: openwork hands, Roman numerals. In the finial a full-figured, Bacchic figure of a seated putto with a chalice in his hand wearing a wreath of vines on his head. Around the clock face - a decoration with swirling branches of a vine.
Key and pendulum included; clock in working order.