Description
HANGING LAMP in gilded bronze representing the allegory of Astronomy and Geometry in the form of women draped in the antique style framing a terminal decorated with quivers enclosed in ribbon bows and sphinges back to back in appliques, surmounted by a blue and gold lacquered sphere indicating the signs of the zodiac and containing the dial with Roman numerals for the hours and Arabic for the minutes. It rests on a rectangular base chiseled in bas-relief with putti playing with scientific instruments and simulating data collection; applied shells, finished with claw feet. Empire period around 1805 Restorations, resumption of the gilding and lacquering of the sphere Height 50 cm ; Width : 41,5cm A clock of identical model, the dial signed Deverberie is reproduced in: " French Bronze Clocks 1700-1830 ", by Elke Niehüser, Munich 1999, p.90 fig 141-142. A clock with an identical subject, by the bronze worker Manière, treated a little differently, is preserved in the Château de Fontainebleau, in the salon of the Prince Imperial.
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HANGING LAMP in gilded bronze representing the allegory of Astronomy and Geometry in the form of women draped in the antique style framing a terminal decorated with quivers enclosed in ribbon bows and sphinges back to back in appliques, surmounted by a blue and gold lacquered sphere indicating the signs of the zodiac and containing the dial with Roman numerals for the hours and Arabic for the minutes. It rests on a rectangular base chiseled in bas-relief with putti playing with scientific instruments and simulating data collection; applied shells, finished with claw feet. Empire period around 1805 Restorations, resumption of the gilding and lacquering of the sphere Height 50 cm ; Width : 41,5cm A clock of identical model, the dial signed Deverberie is reproduced in: " French Bronze Clocks 1700-1830 ", by Elke Niehüser, Munich 1999, p.90 fig 141-142. A clock with an identical subject, by the bronze worker Manière, treated a little differently, is preserved in the Château de Fontainebleau, in the salon of the Prince Imperial.
