Exceptional Large Louis XIV Style Gilt Bronze Mantel Clock And Candelabra.

Rare beautiful opulent fireplace set from the Napoleon III period, ornamental with a gadrooned dial with dark blue Roman numerals on white enamel, with a rich Bérain-style ornamented dial and topped with a beautiful covered urn basin decorated with a hanging garland. Of generous shape and not lacking in arguments, this beautiful piece in a magnificent gilded bronze will delight the most demanding; the lions' heads on the sides with suspended rings in their mouths ending with two generous pompoms, the ornamental base resting on four beautiful corner feet, the narrowed body supporting the dial in generous volutes and garland on trellis recalling the sides; the four-branched candelabra with a beautiful flight and their bobêches as well as their two extinguishers coming to top them and the repetition in agreement with the clock of the decorative canon of this well-preserved set and rich in a beautiful decor of great bourgeois, worthy, of the Second Empire. An unusual piece, stylish without being a bastard marked by its pastiche era, we are here in a truly beautiful piece intended to make us forget the pillaging of the Revolution and the melting of these pieces to make cannons and then shells later... A preserved miracle and in good working order with its key and removable pendulum.