A Napoleon III gilt-bronze and Sèvres style porcelain three piece clock garniture Paris, circa 1870-75

comprised of a mantle clock and a pair of four light candelabras, the clock case surmounted by a pair of children fighting over a bird, the white and polychrome painted enamel with Roman numerals, the front and sides with Sèvres style painted porcelain plaques, the candelabras modeled as cupids. 

The rounded porcelain plaque on the left side of the clock case has a vertical hairline crack to the glaze. One keyhole to the dial has a chip to the enamel. Tarnishing to gilt-bronze throughout. Some porcelain plaques loose.
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