A French bronze and ormolu Pendule Au Bon Sauvage mantel clock in the style of Jean-Simon Deverberie.The eight-day duration timepiece movement has a silk suspension. The round engine-turned gilded dial has a white enamel chapter ring with black Roman numerals and blued steel Breguet moon hands.The ormolu case has a bronze figure of a hunter holding a bow and arrow with a quiver of arrows to his back, wearing a gilded skirt and with inset glass eyes, standing beside a water flagon and dead game bird lying on a bale and with a gilded palm tree to the side, the oval base with an applied bronze floral mount to the front.This style of clock first came to fruition in the late-18th century and was very much influenced by the writings of authors including Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, along with the discovery of the South Sea Islands, where in 1767 the French explorer Bougainville landed in Tahiti followed by Captain Cook two years later. The apparent harmoni...