Description
Important gilt bronze revolving circle clock featuring Orpheus holding his lyre in his hands, a quiver of arrows and a flaming torch at his feet. He is seated on a blue starry globe forming a dial, a snake surrounding him serves as a needle. This figure rests on a rectangular base in gilded bronze decorated with ornaments in application of a frieze of cherubs and garlands of flowers. The whole rests on a white veined green marble base with four feet in the shape of a winged lion's paw. Empire period. Size : 47 x 41 x 21 cm. The work of the bronzes present on our clock is to be compared with the bronzes created by Pierre-Philippe Thomire (1751-1843). He is one of the most remarkable bronze makers of his generation, he is known for his production of furniture bronzes under the Ancien Régime.
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Important gilt bronze revolving circle clock featuring Orpheus holding his lyre in his hands, a quiver of arrows and a flaming torch at his feet. He is seated on a blue starry globe forming a dial, a snake surrounding him serves as a needle. This figure rests on a rectangular base in gilded bronze decorated with ornaments in application of a frieze of cherubs and garlands of flowers. The whole rests on a white veined green marble base with four feet in the shape of a winged lion's paw. Empire period. Size : 47 x 41 x 21 cm. The work of the bronzes present on our clock is to be compared with the bronzes created by Pierre-Philippe Thomire (1751-1843). He is one of the most remarkable bronze makers of his generation, he is known for his production of furniture bronzes under the Ancien Régime.
