Lot 426 Dα

A Parisian gilt and patinated bronze pendulum clock with Cupid revealing time

With white enamel dial and blued steel hands. 14-day running with half-hourly striking to a bell and thread suspension. Decorated with figural bronze and appliques of a fruit dish and ivy-twined thyrsos. The dial signed "Ledure Bronzier à Paris" and "Hémon hr." Cracks to the dial. H 33.5, W 24.5, D 10.5 cm.
Bronze by Pierre-Victor Ledure, clock movement by Claude Hémon, ca. 1800.