Antique French Orientalist Arab 8 Day Gilt Bronze Statue Clock Garniture, Circa 1880 Sculpture please see a similar inkwell

please see a similar inkwell housed in the Victoria & Albert Museum

Each base finely cast as a seated putto on a gilt bronze rocky outcrop

The bowl decorated in under-glazed blue & white and has a band of reticulation around the outside

the back and base are in two sections for ease of movement

condition is good

Antique French Orientalist Arab 8 Day Gilt Bronze Statue Clock Garniture, Circa 1880 Sculpture please see a similar inkwellA Fine & important French bronze statue 8 day clock garniture in the Orientalist style, circa 1880. The 8 day clock with a time and strike mechanism, sounding the hours and half hours on a pleasant mellow sounding bell. The clock is house in a lavish bronze case heightened with silver gilt, to the top is an engraved 'Minaret' shaped finial and below a gallery of silvered and gilt bronze leaves. The white enamel clock dial having black Arabic numerals,