Gilt bronze and polychrome enamel cartel, the dial with cartouches with Roman numerals surmounted by griffins, satyrs and fantastic birds, the sides decorated with heads of bearded men; the movement inscribed M (in an oval). Signed F. Barbedienne for Ferdinand Barbedienne (left side behind near a griffin wing). Napoleon III period. H: 90 cm, W: 37 cm An identical cartel was sold in Paris, Coutau-Bégarie study on June 4, 1999, lot 139. Ferdinand Barbedienne (1810-1892) illustrated again the technique of polychrome enamels from 1858 onwards, presenting in particular a pair of very spectacular vases at the 1862 Universal Exhibition in London .