A stunning and extremely unusual orientalist bronze mantel clock of a camel and a Bedouin tribesman. Unlike any orientalist camel clock seen before this clock is superbly modelled in bronze and is set upon a black marble base further inlaid with bronze and on four bronze feet. The camel is shown sitting and the tribesman is set upon his back with musket, water bottle, pipe etc. The white enamel dial is signed Mottu Freres Paris. Mottu brothers were working at Rue Grenville Saint Honore in 1840. The hands of Breguet form are of blued steel. The 8 day bell striking movement is regulated by a steel suspended pendulum. France circa 1850-60. 16 inches high by 15.25 inches wide by 9 inches deep ( 40 cms by 38 cms by 22.5 cms).