Louis XVI period clock with the attributes of France and the House of Savoy

Pendulum in chased and gilded bronze and white Carrara marble. On the damping, a trophy of arms with cuirass and standards with the arms of France and the House of Savoy.
This clock was created in honor of the marriage of the Duke of Artois, brother of the King of France, and Marie Thérèse of Savoy on November 16, 1773, this union strengthens diplomatic ties between the two states.
The movement inscribed in a terminal flanked by two putti, rests on a base with rows of pearls and curled with foliage. Small pastille feet.
The dial signed by Laruelle in Paris, indicates the hours in Arabic numerals in increments of Five. The dates are indicated in red Arabic numerals. The movement signed by Laruelle in Paris. Based on drawings by Jacques Prieur for the atlantes and Jean-Joseph de Saint-Germain for the bronze.
the dial and the plate signed by Delaruelle in Paris
Louis XVI period.

Height: 35 - Width: : 30.5 - D. : 11 cm
The original composition of this clock, particularly the figures of bent children represented as atlantes, draws its inspiration more or less freely from certain projects by great Parisian ornamentalists of the period, particularly from a wall light project by Jean-Louis Prieur illustrated in H. Ottomeyer and P. Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, Band I, Munich, 1986, p. 173, fig. 3.5.5; as well as from a preparatory study of a rotating circle clock by Jean-François Forty which is reproduced in Tardy, La pendule française, 2° partie : Du Louis XVI à nos jours, Paris, 1975, p. 285. The famous Parisian bronzier Jean-Joseph de Saint-Germain produced several models of clocks whose cases are flanked by similar figures of children, including a first example published in Tardy, op. cit., p. 261, and a second, the movement of Joseph Bertrand, which belongs to the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (see J-D. Augarde, “Jean-Joseph de Saint-Germain bronzier (1719-1791), inédits sur sa vie et son œuvre”, in L'Estampille/L'Objet d'Art, no. 308, December 1996, p. 80, fig. 25). Finally, let us note that the other particularity of the clock that we are proposing lies in its top decoration composed of a military trophy formed in particular of an antique cuirass, a helmet, a quiver with arrow feathers and fleur-de-lis flags, a martial decoration which suggests that it was ordered by one of the members of the royal family