FRANCE, XVIIIème et XIXème siècles A brass inlaid cartel and a bracket with a brown background decorated with birds, tendrils, scrolls, flowers and foliage. Dial with twelve enamelled copper cartouches with blue Roman numerals for the hours, signed "J.B. PAILLARD à Paris" in an enamelled cartouche. Centre decorated with two birds facing each other among foliage, under a portico. Movement with key winding, with plate signed "Jea Bapt Paillard à Paris". Ornamentation in gilt bronze such as bas-relief with a young draped woman, mouldings, falls, scrolled feet, child in cushion, angular heads of women, base, some elements reported. Apocryphal stamp of MARCHAND, inscribed several times. Partly from the Louis XV period. H. Height : 140 cm. - Length : 42 cm. - Depth : 15 cm. Wear, accidents and missing parts, notably the index of the dial, the glass, a hinge of the door and the marquetry. Restorations. Specimens in tortoiseshell Chelonioidea spp (I/A) pre-Convention, prior to June 1, 1947 and therefore in conformity with EC Regulation 338/97 of 09/12/1996 art.2-Wmc. For a possible export, it will be up to the future buyer to inquire - before any purchase - with the customs of the country concerned, particularly if it is the United States. For an exit from the European Union, a CITES re-export will be necessary, this one being at the charge of the future buyer.