GILDED BRONZE PENDULUM CLOCK, DEPICTING AN ALLEGORY OF EROTIC POETRY, FRANCE CIRCA 1800 gilded bronze case, depicting an allegory of erotic poetry, with Erato crowning a small musical Eros, white enamel dial with Roman numerals signed Verdiere rue Dauphine no. 15 à Paris, Breguet-style hands, 15-day movement with silk-wire suspension, hour and half-hour strike on bell. Mechanism not working, to be serviced, pendulum lens present, rod absent. H 50 cm, W 36 cm, D 14 cm. A GILT-BRONZE TABLE PENDULUM CLOCK, DEPICTING THE ALLEGORY OF EROTIC POETRY, FRANCE CIRCA 1800