VASSY JEURE, PARIS: AN EMPIRE STYLE ORMOLU PORTICO MANTEL CLOCK

19th Century
The 12cm dial inset with Roman numeral enamel plaques, the case styled with two caryatids and two mask-mounted columns, surmounted by an ornamental urn with ram’s head handles, and a sunburst pendulum, the movement with counter-wheel strike on a bell, signed ‘VASSY JEURE, PARIS’ and numbered 1146, 48 cm high