A Directoire gilt bronze “spaniel” clock

A Directoire gilt bronze “spaniel” clock – circa 1795 

The dial indicating the hours and days of the month signed Drouot à Paris 

The enamel signed by enameller G.Merlet

Height: 44.5 cm (17 ½ in.)             Width: 45.5 cm (18 in.)                   Depth: 10 cm (4 in.)

Comparative literature:

 Examples entirely in gilt bronze:

-Pavlovsk Palace, Russia, signed L. J. Laguesse

-Alexander Collection, sold Christie’s New York, 30 April 1999, lot 166, signed à Paris

-Partridge, London, illustrated in the 1992 catalogue, no. 29, signed Le Paute à Paris

Examples in gilt bronze and white marble:

Illustrated in Pierre Kjellberg, Encyclopédie de la Pendule Française, Les Editions de l’Amateur, 1997, p. 278 and 279 B, the dial signed Cronier à Paris