Offered by Gude & Meis Antique Clocks
8-day movement with half hour striking, finely cast and chiseled bronze case with verde antico marble base, Bronzier: Clodion
11.5-cm enamel dila with Roman numerals and outer callibration for date signed Thiery à Paris, pierced gilt hands, 8-day spring-driven movement with anchor escapement and silk suspended pendulum, half hour countwheel striking on a bell, finely cast and chiseled bronze case shaped as a classical altar surmounted by books and an armarilly sphere, flanked by a classical nude winged man holding a flambeau personifying 'Genius', on the other side a classical female personifying 'Imagination', on a break front ormolu base with high relief, verde antico marble plinth on turned feet, Bronzier and design by Claude Michel Clodion (1738 – 1814)
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