allegorical of la terre and la mer, the terrestrial cast dial with Roman numerals, the twin-train movement stamped PAUL GARNIER/ PARIS and numbered 3301

Les plus Belles Pendules Française, Tardy Vol II, p. 101 for the Victoria and Albert museum model illustrated 

Please note that we cannot guarantee movement. Inset enamels with some small chips, the largest being to roman numeral X. Hands of clock slightly bent. Gilt bronze with oxidation, rubbing and pitting due to atmospheric conditions. Patinated bronze with surface dirt and rubbing to patina. Light surface scratches. The globe with areas of loss to the gilding.
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This monumental clock is after a rare eighteenth century model, one example of which is conserved in the Victoria and Albert Museum, illustrated, Tardy, French Clocks the World Over, Paris, 1981, p. 101. The celebrated collector, the 4th Marquess of Hertford, owned an eighteenth century version of the clock with a movement by Jean Romilly which he kept at the château de Bagatelle, the former home of the Comte d'Artois, and was inherited by Sir Richard Wallace, and later by Sir John Murray Scott. This was photographed in the salon at Bagatelle by Charles Marville, reproduced, B. Pons, French Period Ropoms 1650-1800, Dijon, 1995, p.60.