Important portico clock in white and black marble with mercury-gilt bronze applications.
Structure with die-cut half columns in black marble with Corinthian capitals in gilded bronze placed against white marble uprights also enriched with phytomorphic friezes.
Centrally located is the machine with a white porcelain dial adorned in the lower part by a frieze with a vegetal subject with a love knot and crowned above by an amphora from which floral waste emanates.
The support base is mixed-line in shape with turned feet.
The dial is signed Bourret a Paris.
Noel Burret (1755-1803) was one of the most important Parisian clock makers active between 1790 and 1802,
Original mechanism with wire suspension.
France, late 18th century.
The dimensions are: 41 x 14, height 52
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