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S. Marti figural, ca. 1870.
This is a pretty spectacular-looking clock, but it's had some help.
It did not start out black with gold highlights; it appears to have been a more typical bronze, or perhaps even more likely, gilded.
The base metal is spelter.
Somebody did a fine job of painting and adding the gold highlights once the gilding was gone.
The figures, a young woman and a boy who are on their way back from fishing (or a trip to the fish market), are painted slightly differently
from the clock base.
I don't see any missing ornamentation, although it is unclear to me what the boy's long rod represents.
The black dial has inset gold Roman numerals and there is a beveled glass in the sash.
The pendule de Paris movement has a count
wheel for the strike, dating it to pre-1880; it is stamped faintly with the S Marti logo.
It is running and striking, but the
bell has been lost.