LOUIS XVI STYLE CLOCK In chased and gilded bronze, porcelain in the Sèvres style and white marble, the white enamelled dial signed "Planchon /A PARIS", the movement signed "PLANCHON A PARIS" inscribed in a truncated column, flanked by a woman draped in the antique style holding a portrait of Henri IV and a child playing with a dog, resting on a pedestal terminating in spinning top feet;minor accidents and missing parts. H.:46 cm (18 ¼ in.) l.:30 cm (11 ¾ in.) P.:16 cm (6 ¼ in.) Comparative bibliography: H. Ottomeyer, P. Pröschel et al, Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, Vol. I, p.245, fig. 4.6.4. A Louis XVI style gilt-bronze, porcelain and white marble allegorical mantel clock This elegant allegorical clock illustrating the theme of Friendship and Fidelity is a reproduction of the Louis XVI period model probably created by the merchant-mercier Dominique Daguerre in collaboration with the Sèvres Manufactory in the early 1780s. A preparatory drawing of this model, intended to furnish the Brussels palace of Prince Albert Casimir, Duke of Teschen, is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum in New York (inv. 60-692-7). A few examples from the Louis XVI period can be found in museums such as the piece in the Boston Museum of Decorative Arts (inv. 65.2236), the Philadelphia Museum (inv. 1939-41-58) or the one now in the Queen's apartments at the Château de Versailles.