AN EARLY 20TH CENTURY FRENCH ORMOLU MOUNTED SAMSON PORCELAIN ELEPHANT MANTEL CLOCK modelled as a standing elephant supporting the case on his back and raised on a Rococo style gilt bronze base, the gilt bronze foliate bezel enclosing the white enamelled dial, with single train, timepiece movement, with Samson mark and spurious iron red horn mark,  24cm high A similar Samson elephant clock with spurious iron red horn mark but featuring a man riding the elephant, was sold at Christie's, London, 22 March 2017, lot 332, £27,500.