A FINE LATE 18TH CENTURY FRENCH LOUIS XVI PERIOD GILT BRONZE AND WHITE MARBLE FIGURAL MANTEL CLOCK WITH CALENDAR  depicting Venus reclining on a rocky outcrop formed from carved white marble, Cupid with his quiver of arrows beside her, with a goat and a pair of doves to the rocks, raised on a black marble oval plinth with ormolu panels of musical putti and classical masks over a beaded mount and toupie feet, the white enamelled dial signed 'Chardin' and painted with floral garlands and gilt stars, with Roman numerals and an outside calendar ring with Arabic numerals, the skeletonised centre revealing the wheelwork for the centre sweep calendar hand, the twin barrel movement with flat bottomed, circular plates, with silk suspension and outside countwheel striking on a bell, with pendulum, 48cm high x 48cm wide The movement is winding, ticking and striking but not fully tested or guaranteed.