AN EMPIRE ORMOLU AND VERDE ANTICO MARBLE FIGURAL STRIKING MANTEL CLOCK 'LA LISEUSE'

The design for this clock is inspired by the celebrated drawing executed circa 1805 and attributed to Jean-André Reiche, which is illustrated in H. Ottomeyer P. Pröschel et. al., Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, vol. I, p. 374, fig. 5.15.3.
Another version of the same model is illustrated in P. Kjellberg, Encyclopédie de la Pendule Française du Moyen Age au XXe siècle, Paris, 1997, p. 398, ill. B.