French, Lerolle Freres, a'Paris, (blinker) dore bonze clock in the rococo fantasy style with a brace of hippocampi with webbed feet emerging from the waves, on left a young Amphitrite with fish tails and to her right a cherub with 2 fish fins in lieu of feet, playing a conch, and at the top a small cherub with two sticks in his hands for percussion accompaniment. Just below the dial a bust of Neptune [or Poseidon in Greek], with animated eyes that move back and forth with each tick. C.1850.
Lerolle Freres
Shelf or Mantel
France
5/15/2010