Delettrez a Paris, a bronze and ormolu mantel clock: the eight-day duration movement striking the hours and half-hours on a bell with an outside countwheel and having Brocot regulation to the pendulum, the backplate stamped Delettrez, Paris, the round white enamel dial having black Roman numerals, blued steel hands and with a repeat of the signature below VI o'clock, the bronze case profusely decorated with ormolu mounts to the front and edges and standing on a richly decorated ormolu base, surmounted by a bronze figure probably depicting the 17th century French playwright, poet and actor, Jean-Baptiste Poquelin better known by his stage name, Molière, seated in a thoughtful pose whilst writing, height 53cms.* Biography Jean-Antoine Delettrez was a well-known Parisian clockmaker, working from 1851 in partnership with Achille Brocot, son of the maker Louis-Gabriel, at rue Charlot 62 and with whom he continued the development the Brocot form of pendulum adjustment for regulation of timekeeping first developed by Brocot père and for which they were awarded a medal at the Paris Exposition of 1855. Following the death of Achille Brocot in 1878, Delettrez continued alone and died in May 1887.