Empire pendulum "Femme à la toilette" Bronze, finely chiselled and gilded. Fully sculpted depiction of a young woman and a cupid boy with a mirror sitting on the clock case. Between them a hinged casket with flacons. Below them, a canted pedestal with chimeras in raised relief and a rectangular, rounded base with a putti frieze on claw feet. Profile-framed enamel dial, inscribed "Fervez Rue de L'odéon à Paris". Pendulum movement with thread suspension and half-hour strike on bell. H. 48 cm. 39 cm x 14 cm. Cf. Niehüser, illus. p. 177 and Tardy, p. 225. A French gilt bronze Empire mantel clock. Strikes half an hour on a bell. France. Paris. Circa 1815.