271 - Louis XVI-style CHIMNEY PIECE from the Napoleon III period, in white marble and gilded bronze, decorated with beaded moldings and floral scrollwork, comprising

Louis XVI-style CHIMNEY PIECE from the Napoleon III period, in white marble and gilded bronze, decorated with beaded moldings and floral scrollwork, comprising - A clock decorated with two small fauns playing music. The white enamel dial, signed “PUTHON l’aîné, Horloger de la Marine à Paris,” features Roman numerals for the hours, Arabic numerals for the tens, and a railway-style minute track, topped by a pair of birds amid clouds and accented with ribbon-wrapped laurel branches The Brocot suspension movement is complete with its gong, balance wheel, and key, and appears to be in working condition (not guaranteed) Sliding feet 40 x 39.5 x 15.5 cm - A pair of three-light candelabras decorated with a musician putto holding a bouquet of flowers Column base with garlands of ribbon-adorned flowers and laurel molding Square base, glide feet H. 52 cm W. 28 cm Provenance | Collection of Henri Dupuy de Lôme for his estate in the Var region, then passed down through the family Biography | Stanislas Henri Laurent Dupuy de Lôme French naval engineer (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.