A LOUIS XV MEISSEN AND FRENCH PORCELAIN-MOUNTED ORMOLU AND TOLE...

A LOUIS XV MEISSEN AND FRENCH PORCELAIN-MOUNTED ORMOLU AND TOLE PEINTE MANTEL CLOCK
THE DIAL AND MOVEMENT SIGNED BENOIST GERARD / À PARIS, THE PORCELAIN AND ORMOLU CIRCA 1740, THE FLOWERS LARGELY 18TH CENTURY
The circular enamel dial with Roman and Arabic chapters within a foliate and C-scroll case surmounted by a youth with fruit and set within a bocage with two pastoral figural groups, on a C-scroll and foliate base, the dial and movement signed 'Benoist Gerard À Paris/No. 526', with twin spring barrels and strike on a bell, restorations to extremities of porcelain groups
21 in. (53.5 cm.) high, 15 in. (38.1 cm.) wide, 6 ¾ in. (17 cm.) deep

Provenance
Comtesse de Rochefort, Paris.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, Monaco, 18 June 1999, lot 73.
With Partridge, London.
Partridge; Christie's, New York, 17 May 2006, lot 201.