Elegant late 18th/early 19th Century French Directoire period ormolu mounted white marble urn shaped mantel clock by Gaston Jolly. White marble body with a tapered lobbed underside sitting on a sophisticated slim waist socle base. White marble ball finial on a gilt bronze socle. Ormolu mounted stepped grey Bardiglio marble base sitting on 4 machine turned bun feet. Fine ormolu bezel and elegant late 18th Century hands. White enamel dial signed ''Gason Jolly ą Paris'' in a gold painted scroll cartouche. 8 day silk suspension movement. France, circa 1800.Based in London, we are dealers in fine decorative antiques from the 18th and 19th centuries. We specialise in this era of enlightenment, neoclassicism and the Grand Tour, with its far reaching influence on style and taste in Britain, Continental Europe and beyond: elegance in the age of Napoleon. Our extensive stock covers all aspects of this period and decorative antiques influenced by the period. We constantly source new, beautifu...