Mantel clock. Classicism. France

This is a bronze mantel clock with a pendulum and
bell. The clock’s bronze mount, held atop six bun-shaped feet, is placed on an
oval wooden base. The front is decorated with attached bronze ornaments: cupids
flying on winged Pegasus-like horses. Neptune’s head is between them, atop
crossed torches. The clock’s mechanism is mounted within a flat, bronze,
blackened vase that grows wider at the top, which is standing on the
mount.  At the top of the vase, on a
shell drawn by two birds, there is a seated Diana. At its base, the vase is
decorated with two winged dolphins, and at the sides – heads of Neptune from
which water flows down into basins below. The Roman numerals (I-XII) marking
the hours and the minute sections are drawn onto the white enamel coated clock
face, which is surrounded by a bronze border. The numbers “9548” have been
etched into the pendulum and the mechanism.