A gilt bronze mounted turquoise ground Sèvres style porcelain mantle clock, Paris, late 19th century

the clock case surmounted by a painted oval portrait medaillon of Marie-Antoinette, the painted porcelain dial with Roman numerals, the clock case fitted with painted plaque of Venus and Cupid and floral garlands, the twin train movement stamped 1068 and with the Horologie Paris seal

pendulum and bell are present, no key
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This type of finely porcelain-mounted mantle clock of architectural or portico-shaped case was very fashionable under the reign of King Louis XVI.

The present model has an oval porcelain plaque painted with the effigy of Queen Marie-Antoinette, spouse of King Louis XVI.

A Louis XVI finely painted porcelain-mounted clock surmounted by an oval porcelain medallion above the dial is now in the collection of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and was formerly in the Pawlowski Palace in St. Petersburg.