Clock with figures in gilded bronze, matt and shiny on a sea green marble base with six spinning top feet, representing Venus disarming Love, sitting on a meridian, the oblong base enclosing the circular white enamel dial with Roman and Arabic numerals in black signed Chles LeComte in Paris in branches of myrtle knotted flanked by naiads (chips to the marble and enamel, modified movement, missing the stamp and the arrow of Cupid). Empire period. Height : 48 48 - Width : 40 - Depth : 14 cm Note : Charles Lecomte, received master in 1785, was mainly active during the Empire and the Restoration. Bibliography : - Kjellberg, Encyclopédie de la Pendule Française, L'Amateur, p. 392. - Niehüser, French Bronze Clocks, p. 98. Expert : Mr Cédric Hénon.