A Louis XVI style gilt and patinated bronze mounted white marble mantle clock Paris, circa 1895

the white and black enamel dial signed F^{d Berthoud / PARIS}, the twin-train movement with the stamp of Etienne Maxant and signed Etienne Maxant Breveté Paris and numbered 20220, the pendulum similarly numbered. 

See Tardy, The Most Beautiful French Clocks, Paris, 1994, pp. 162-163 for illustrations of a similar eighteenth century dial know as à la dauphine by Cotteau and Dubuisson.

Ottomeyer/Prðschel, Vergoldete Bronzen I, Munich, 1986.

Overall in good condition with tarnishing to gilt-bronze in places. One arrow head mount loose. Pendulum, no key or bell. Minor chips to marble base and some gilt-bronze feet will need to be tightened.
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Ferdinand Berthoud (1727-1807), was born in Switzerland and settled in Paris in 1745. Considered the best clockmaker of his time, he gained a great reputation for the excellence and accuracy of his chronometers. He was succeeded in business by his nephew, Louis Berthoud (1759-1813).

Etienne Maxant was located at 4 Rue Saintonge, Paris between 1880 and 1905 and is known to have supplied movements to many of the best cabinet and clock makers of the time.