"Autumn", Large Mantel Clock

CHARPENTIER & Cie, mantel clock, "Autumn", late 19th Century

Large patinated bronze group with a sitting bacchante and two putti, one offering a bunch of grapes and the other playing a flute. Imposing white marble base decorated with gilded flower garlands on four ormolu toupee feet, with an enamel dial showing blue Roman numerals and signed Charpentier & Cie/bronzier/Rue Charlot à Paris.

French movement with two barrels to be wound weekly. The left one for the half-hourly rack strike on a bell, the right one for the movement with Brocot escapement and suspension. Finely cut gilt brass hands. Stamp on the rear of the movement Charpentier, Ft de Bronzes à Paris and numbered 612.

CHARPENTIER & Cie Bronze makers in PARIS, located in the 8 rue Charlot in Paris in 1860, the company kept trading under the name Lemerle-Charpentier between 1870 and 1890. In 1878, it presented a vast quantity of vases, torchères, garnitures, and a large and impressive clock by Piat at the Paris Universal Exhibition.(