Clock Mythologique "eurydice And The Snake" 1840

Imposing pendulum from the Restoration period circa 1840. Mythological theme, in mercury-gilded bronze with gold, large finely worked sculpture with the figure of Eurydice, musician and wife of Orpheus, on a patinated bronze rock with a snake coiled around it. ankle. White enamel dial highlighted by a chiseled outline of foliage. The whole rests on a large base decorated with an outline of palmettes and a frieze, chiseled in the center of a lyre belonging to Orpheus.


"Pursued by Aristaeus on her wedding day. While trying to flee, she is bitten by a snake and dies. Inconsolable, Orpheus sings a lament. Moved by her song and her lyre, the gods allow her to descend to the Underworld for Save her."

Original mechanism without modification, hour and half hour strike on old bell.


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