Empire period gilt and patinated bronze and green marble automaton clock depicting a lover sharpening the point of an arrow held in his hand, millstone and fountains decorating the automaton terminal surrounding a circular enamel frame, marble base decorated with lions and a head of Mercury surrounded by foliage, 60x39x17 cm Similar clock illustrated in Kjellberg, La pendule française du Moyen-Age au XXe s., p. 445 Provenance: collection of a Neuchâtel family movement of the clock and automatons to be reviewed neither the clock nor the automatons work damage to the marble: missing parts and restorations wear and tear to the gilding