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Modeled with a putto alighting atop a mantle and crowning a woman, probably Venus at her toilette with Amor, the base with a wedding celebration relief and inscription reading Soyez Heureux, the circular enamel dial with Roman hours, the back plate numbered 468, the base with a later domed element
22 in. (55.9 cm.) high, 1534 in. (40 cm.) wide, 6 in. (15.2 cm.) deep
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For another example of this model, see Elke Niehüser, French Bronze Clocks, 1700-1830, Munich, 1999, p. 210, fig. 293.

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