A Louis XVI Ormolu “Cercle Tournant” Table Clock with Calendar, “Antide Janvier”

rectangular standing spring-driven movement, power reserve: 1 week, engraved “JANVIER, No 138, 11/87”, lever escapement, thread suspension, half-hour count wheel striking mechanism on bell, index for date, corresponding daily planets and weekday, time indication by means of two rotating polychrome decorated enamel rings and the tongue of a coiled snake, fire-gilt vase-shaped bronze case with lateral bacchanal mascarons on a square base, two side doors, three blue ground enamel medallions in grisaille painting probably Joseph Coteau, 41 cm, France c. 1787, minor signs of age and use, no warranty for precision of movement and long-term functioning, 1 pendulum, 1 key, (HP)
Antide Janvier, 1751-1835, designed and manufactured armillary spheres and clocks of the highest quality for Louis XVI. Subsequently he became a court clockmaker to Louis XVIII.