"Louis XVI Style Gilt Bronze Cage Clock, Lemerle Charpentier"
Important gilt and chiseled bronze cage clock in Louis XVI style. The enamel dial decorated with flowers and with Roman numerals signed by Lemerle Charpentier 8 rue Charlot in Paris is inserted in a glass cage and surrounded by flowers and gilt bronze ribbons. The bronze base on 4 glides feet. France around 1880. (beautiful gilding of the time, small chip on the beveled glass of the bezel and scratch on the enamel dial number VIII)