"Bronze Pendulum Clock Known As Prudence Or Cleopatra From The Louis XVI Period"
Pendulum with the allegory of Prudence or Cleopatra after the model by Pierre Antoine Foullet 1710-1780, in chased and gilded bronze decorated with a woman in the Antique style presenting a mirror and a snake wrapped around her arm (missing) and resting on a case in which the movement is inscribed, base with projection decorated with a mascaron holding garlands of laurels, against blackened wooden base decorated with friezes of applied posts in the state, the snake is missing Ref p Kjelberg p252 fig B