LXVI Mantel Clock “Allegory to the Grape Harvest”

Rare mantel clock in burnished bronze and finely chased and mercury-gilt bronze on a white statuario marble base. Modeled as a wine barrel supported by satyrs, surrounded by grapevines and with a draped lion skin, white enameled dial with Arabic numerals, signed "Sauvajot A Paris", movement plate signed and numbered no. 87. France. Period: LXVI. Dimensions: HxWxD: 50x42x14 cm. Bibliography Compare the mantel clock depicted in Kjellberg, Encyclopédie de la pendule Française, p. 241C.