CLOTHING PARTLY 18th CENTURY Meissen porcelain, 18th century, circa 1755, the bronzes of later date 18th century Meissen porcelain, circa 1755, in the form of a portico with six fluted columns with Corinthian capitals and a console supporting a flamed baroque vase, framing a group of two draped children dancing, the dial surmounted by a figure of Apollo playing the lyre surrounded by three draped children in porcelain and four flamed vases in gilt bronze, the dial signed "Corniquet Fb St Honoré"; minor accidents and missing parts to the porcelain. H. 67 cm (26 ½ in.) l. 34 cm (13 ½ in.) P. 19 cm (7 ½ in.) Philippe Jacques Corniquet, master watchmaker in 1785; active in Faubourg St Honoré between 1789 and 1804 Provenance : Former Chmielewski collection ; Sale in 1985 (211,000 FF), according to G. Wannenes ; French taste: the collection of a great European connoisseur. Bibliography : G. Wannenes, A. Wannenes, "Les plus belles pendules françaises de Louis XIV à l'Empire", Edizioni Polistampa, Florence, 2013, p. 216 (reproduced). A partly 18th century gilt-bronze mounted and porcelain mantel-clock, the porcelain Meissen, circa 1755, the mounts later