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IMPORTANT AND RARE EGYPTIAN PORTICO CLOCK in patinated and gilded bronze, with six columns resting on a rectangular base supported by four small runners. Richly ornamented with various ormolu figures, seated naophore, bulls, canopic vase, Horus falcons, winged disk and criocephalus capitals. The whole appears to be inspired by the Isiac table from Turin. Enamel dial signed "Bailly à Paris". (Accident to the enamel) Height: 63 cm - Width: 35 cm - Depth: 15 cm Biography : Jean François BAILLY, watchmaker in Paris (1807) Born into an important dynasty of watchmakers active in the second half of the 18th century, he had to train in the family workshop and set up shop on rue de la Loi (now rue de Richelieu) in the early years of the 19th century. He quickly distinguished himself for the quality of his creations and became "Watchmaker to LL. MM. II. et RR. (Watchmaker to Their Imperial and Royal Majesties), working for Emperor Napoleon. He delivered numerous clocks for the Imperial Garde-Meuble, and obtained the privilege of maintaining the clocks in some of the Emperor's palaces and châteaux. He retired from business a few years after the fall of Napoleon. Related work : Musée national du palais de Compiègne, portico clock by Bailly Paris, 1807, marble and bronze, height 62 cm ([1894 A] C.654C). Bibliography : TARDY, Dictionnaire des horlogers parisiens, Paris, 1971, p.24. Thomas HOPE, Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, executed from designs by Thomas Hope, London, 180, pl. VII and XIII. See Egyptomania, op. cit. n° 102, p. 192.

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IMPORTANT AND RARE EGYPTIAN PORTICO CLOCK in patinated and gilded bronze, with six columns resting on a rectangular base supported by four small runners. Richly ornamented with various ormolu figures, seated naophore, bulls, canopic vase, Horus falcons, winged disk and criocephalus capitals. The whole appears to be inspired by the Isiac table from Turin. Enamel dial signed "Bailly à Paris". (Accident to the enamel) Height: 63 cm - Width: 35 cm - Depth: 15 cm Biography : Jean François BAILLY, watchmaker in Paris (1807) Born into an important dynasty of watchmakers active in the second half of the 18th century, he had to train in the family workshop and set up shop on rue de la Loi (now rue de Richelieu) in the early years of the 19th century. He quickly distinguished himself for the quality of his creations and became "Watchmaker to LL. MM. II. et RR. (Watchmaker to Their Imperial and Royal Majesties), working for Emperor Napoleon. He delivered numerous clocks for the Imperial Garde-Meuble, and obtained the privilege of maintaining the clocks in some of the Emperor's palaces and châteaux. He retired from business a few years after the fall of Napoleon. Related work : Musée national du palais de Compiègne, portico clock by Bailly Paris, 1807, marble and bronze, height 62 cm ([1894 A] C.654C). Bibliography : TARDY, Dictionnaire des horlogers parisiens, Paris, 1971, p.24. Thomas HOPE, Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, executed from designs by Thomas Hope, London, 180, pl. VII and XIII. See Egyptomania, op. cit. n° 102, p. 192.

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