The circular white enamel dial with Roman chapters and Arabic minutes, surrounded by flowering branches and rocaille, a pierced scroll above mounted with a quiver, arrows and a dove, the flowering lower finial with figure of Cupid, stamped 'P' and 'M' by plugged holes at the upper pierced scroll, the movement stamped '5' and 'J' twice and '3485'
33¹⁄₂ in. (85.5 cm.) high, 18 in. (46 cm.) wide

The Collection of Mrs. Alan L. Corey, New York and Glen Head; Sotheby's, New York, 5-7 December, 1974, lot 649.

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A clock of the same model, by Julien Le Roy (maître in 1713, d. 1759), horloger ordinaire du Roi, was sold Christie's, London, 14 Dec 2006, lot 23. The picturesque flower-festooned clock is modeled with emblems of Love's dominion, its water-scalloped reeds borne by Cupid, and its triumphal arched pediment providing a trellised arbor for the celestial doves of Venus. A trophy of Cupid's weapons surmounts a third clock of this model, which also bears the name of Julien Le Roy as well as the crowned 'C' tax-brand in use in during the later 1740s, sold Christie's London, April 1965, lot 34. A variant of this model, with movement by Denis Masson à Paris, is illustrated in P. Kjellberg, La Pendule Française, Paris, 1997, p. 100, fig. d.