An Important Louis XVI Gilt Bronze Pendule

An important Louis XV gilt bronze Pendule "Au Lion" of eight day duration by Joseph Mignolet à Paris with black an red Arabic numerals with outer calendar ring for the 31days of the month and a beautiful pair of pierced gilt brass hands for the hours and minutes. The movement with silk thread suspension, the mechanism signed Imbert a Paris, bronze case by François Vion, with the clock drum surmounted by a covered urn hung with a laurel swag and mounted on the back of a lion facing to the left with with flowing mane and serpentine tail on a shaped rectangular gilt bronze mounted ribbon-tied oak leaf spray flanked at the corners by rosettes.
Paris Circa 1770