Empire Clock "au Casque"

Very rare model with an unusual decoration and architecture.
Entirely in bronze, covered with a beautiful matt and shiny mercury gilding.
The sculpture and the chiseling are of excellent quality, precise and very fine.
Gilded bronze decoration of a dragon helmet decorated in gilt with a headdress and a mask of Medusa.
A small Eros giving the impression of coming out of the helmet , he holds an arrow and a bow.
White enamel dial accompanied by beautiful finely chiseled and worked gilded hands.
The clock rests on a first base with animated feet chiseled with channels and rocases, in the center of a drapery chiseled with swords.
The second base is decorated with friezes of bows, quivers and ribboned arrow, in the center thunderbolt of Zeus centered with a shield and ram's head, on the sides friezes of palmettes.

Empire period; A French work circa 1800 - 1805.

The clock is in good original condition (unrestored).
The mechanism is in working order.

Height 33.5 cm Length 31.5 cm Depth 11 cm