85. Important marshal's clock in chased and gilt chased and gilded bronze, bronze with brown patina brown patina and cherry red marble. Allegories of reading of reading and writing personified by a couple couple seated on either side of the movement in a cylinder. It is topped by an eagle with outstretched wings holding flaming torches in its talons. Oblong base in cherry-red marble adorned with a frieze frieze of cherubs and foliage, with medallions underlined by a mask of Daphne on a background of background. It stands on six gadrooned feet. White enameled dial with Arabic numerals signed CARCEL jeune à Paris. Date and wire movement. Empire period. H: 53 cm - W: 69 cm - D: 16.5 cm (Small chips reattached to the marble). With key and pendulum. This model was designed by merchant Dominique Daguerre, based on figures created in 1780 at the Manufacture de Sèvres by sculptor Louis-Simon Boizot.