AFTER A MODEL BY Jean-Charles DELAFOSSE (1734-1789) Large silvered bronze cartel richly decorated with lions' heads, goats' heads and lions' paws, acanthus leaves, pine cones and bunches of grapes and surmounted by an Antique-style vase with foliage. Enamelled circular dial with Arabic and Roman numerals signed with the monogram "CB" or "GB". Louis XVI period. H. 83 x W. 38 cm. (Oxidation, restorations, added movement). Note: A similar model is reproduced in Pierre Kjellberg's Encyclopédie de la pendule française, p. 191 figure B.