Gilded bronze mantelpiece including a clock and two large torches, decorated with female figures in the taste of the School of Fontainebleau, the clock with a dial with Roman numerals in a frame of masks, mantling, horns of plenty and lion's heads, surmounted by a group of four figures, the movement with the stamp of the house Bocquet et Fils in Paris; the torches (missing at the top) with two figures resting on bases with lion's head and claw feet. Signed A. Carrier for Albert Carrier - Belleuse (1824 - 1887). Napoleon III period. Clock, H. : 82,5 cm, W. : 52 cm, D : 24 cm Torches, H. : 63 cm and 64 cm