Gilt bronze mantel clock, Empire period

Gilt bronze mantel clock. Portico model with small columns, simulating an antique temple adorned with numerous decorative elements blending Greek and Egyptian references.
Fine state of preservation of the original mercury gilding.
The clock movement is set within an arch decorated with figures of Fame. Laterally, this form flattens into an ogival shape.
This original movement features a silk-thread suspension. It has its intact enameled dial signed Dubuc Le Jeune, who was active in Paris between 1800 and 1817. He worked on rue des Gravilliers in what is now the Marais district, not far from the École des Arts et Métiers, founded about twenty years earlier.
The sun-shaped pendulum moves above a recessed area simulating a basin with radiating decoration as well, in visual response to the pendulum.
First Empire period.