Offered by Mora Antiques
A spectacular RETURN from EGYPT clock,
France Empire clock, Mensil movement and Ravrio case (one of the greatest French bronziers, 1759-1814), Paris 1805-1810. Gilded and patinated bronze and cherry red marble.
Dimensions: H: 54 cm, L: 29 cm.
This clock has the shape of Isis with a clockwork mechanism, the sides with plates decorated with obelisks and pseudo-hieroglyphs, crowned by mast shapes with cow heads as attributes of Isis.
LITERATURE:
Hans Ottomeyer & Peter Pröschel: Vergoldete Bronzen, volume I, Munich 1986, page 336, compare a similar pendulum Pierre Kjellberg: La Pendule Française, Paris 1997, page 381, compare a similar pendulum David Watkin and Philip Hewat-Jaboor, ed. : Thomas Hope - Regency Designer, London 2008, page 384, compare similar pendants
Delevery information :
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