217.     $150

French marble dog figural clock, ca. 1880.  A 21-inch tall by 17-inch wide statue clock on a marble base with pink marble layered on top of white marble, vertical inserts in the steps and the clock housed in a marble box on the left side.  I see no significant chips or cracks to the marble and it is clean and polished.  The two dogs are cast bronze with a fine patina and little wear.  The screw holding the standing dog’s front feet has come unattached.  The 4-inch decorated porcelain dial is unmarred and the hands appropriate; it sits behind a convex beveled glass.  The unsigned pendule de Paris 8-day, time-and-strike movement is running but is badly out of plumb; the strike-side spring is either unattached or broken. Well, you gotta like a dog clock, and this one has two (dogs).  See also #219.  $150-$300.