Beautiful Louis XVI gilt bronze mantel clock with white marble mounting, eight-day duration, signed on the white enamel dial Arthaults Le Jeune à Paris, dial with outer ring of minutes marked with black Arabic numerals 5/10/15 etc. with intermediate red marks, inner ring of minutes with black Roman numerals and then a further inner calendar ring with rare red Arabic numerals for the 31 days of the month, centered by a shaped semicircular moon dial with a grisaille moon on a blue sky studded with gilded stars marked around with the 29 and a half days of the lunar calendar and above it: "Phases de Lune", with a very refined pair of gilded brass hands for the hours and minutes and blued steel hands for the calendar indications. Movement with anchor escapement, silk thread suspension, hour and half-hour strike on a single bell, with external count wheel. The white marble case with dial, with a beaded border, placed on a pedestal, surmounted by a bouquet of roses and foliage with the standing figure of a semi-draped Venus to the right and to the left a winged Cupid with a quiver of arrows hanging on his back and his arrow on the ground next to him, the figures and the dial drum on a shaped rectangular base with rounded ends, with a gilded bronze beaded border above and carved on the front and sides with leafy volutes inside panels with a beaded border.France. Period : LXVI. HxLxD : 41x27x12 cm.