Pendulum Louis XVI “Allegory of the Grape Harvest”

Rare burnished bronze and finely chased and mercury-gilded bronze pendulum clock on a white statuary marble base. Modeled as a wine barrel supported by satyrs, surrounded by vines and a draped lion skin, the dial is white enameled with Arabic numerals, signed "Sauvajot A Paris." The movement plate is signed and numbered no. 87. France. Period: LXVI.

Dimensions: HxWxD: 50x42x14 cm.

Bibliography
Compare the pendulum clock depicted in Kjellberg, Encyclopédie de la pendule Française, p. 241C.