Portico clock in alabaster and black marble adorned with cha - Lot 245

Portico clock in alabaster and black marble adorned with chased and gilded bronzes. The upper part is crowned with a bowl topped with a bunch of fruit, the uprights with tapering pilasters decorated with applied trophies and rosettes and ending in vases adorned with stylized pine cones. The circular white enameled dial with black hours and quarters in Arabic numerals, signed DEMONTANROUGE Horloger du Roy à CAROUGE, and highlighted with draperies. The rectangular base is decorated with a row of pearls and scrapers. The whole resting on six small toupie feet. With its two bell return cords, gong and key. Late Louis XVI period. 46 x 28.5 x 10 cm. (bronze elements to be refixed, missing balance wheel, cracks to the dial and minor restoration to a pinnacle).