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France, a good 19th century figural gilt and patinated bronze mantel clock celebrating the independence of several North and South American colonial territories, the red patinated base with gilt feet ornamented with scrolled acanthus and gilt molding below an incurved surbase with three seated putti representing commerce, law and order, and military strength, surmounted by a female Native American figure with feathered headdress and lion pelt over her left shoulder, her right hand with broken chain attached to a shackle on her ankle, the left hand with laurel wreath, the forearm resting on a tablet reading "Etats Unis Colombia Mexico Peru", the figure standing on a patinated landscape with naturalistic ornament, quiver with arrows, and an axe, roman numeral silvered dial with blued steel Breguet style hands, eight day two train pendule de Paris movement with count wheel striking on a bell