SMALL SKELETON CLOCK in gilt bronze and white marble, the white enamelled dial with black enamelled Arabic numerals for the hours, signed Bréant. The movement has a wire suspension and a butterfly-shaped pendulum. It is supported by four small baluster columns and rests on a quadrangular gilt bronze and white marble stepped base and four small flattened spheres. Empire period Minor accidents, missing parts and restoration Height 31.8 cm - Width 19.3 cm - Depth 10.3 cm Jacques-Thomas Bréant (1753-1807), Parisian watchmaker received his master's degree on September 26, 1783. After receiving his master's degree, he opened a store in the Palais Royal, while maintaining a workshop on rue Saint-Martin. Shortly before the French Revolution, he filed for bankruptcy, which enables us to identify the craftsmen with whom he collaborated: notably the foundry-chiselers Blavet, Lemire and Florion; the gilders Galle and Carrangeot; and the enamellers Coteau, Barbichon and Merlet. In the 18th century, some of his clocks appeared in the collections of the Duc d'Orléans, the Marquis de Laval and d'Aulnay, the Countess de Faudoas and the Count de Villefranche.