180 - Empire-era URN CLOCK in white marble, black granite, and gilded bronze, decorated with beaded molding, fluting, and godrons; the sides feature ram-head mascaron motifs holding a movable ring and topped with a sphere; the dial is white enamel with Roman numerals for the hours and a railway-track minute scale; the suspension movement is complete with its gong and pendulum and appears to be in working order (not guaranteed)

Empire-era URN CLOCK in white marble, black granite, and gilded bronze, decorated with beaded molding, fluting, and godrons; the sides feature ram-head mascaron motifs holding a movable ring and topped with a sphere; the dial is white enamel with Roman numerals for the hours and a railway-track minute scale; the suspension movement is complete with its gong and pendulum and appears to be in working order (not guaranteed) Curved leg on a square base resting on patin feet with twisted godron molding 43 x 12 cm (a small missing section of molding, minute chips in the marble; the marble sphere replaces a similar one) Provenance | Collection of Henri Dupuy de Lôme for his estate in the Var, then passed down through the family Biography | Stanislas Henri Laurent Dupuy de Lôme Engineer in the French Navy (Ploemeur 1816–Paris 1885). He built the first steamship, the Napoléon (1850), and the first armored frigate, the Gloire (1858), which served as a model for the navy of the Second Empire. Member of the Council of State and deputy for Morbihan. In 1870, he managed to get sixty airships out of besieged Paris. He had been a member of the Academy of Sciences since 1866.