Neoclassical Portico Clock With Calendar Complications, Louis XVI Period, 16th Century, 18th Century

Large Louis XVI period portico calendar clock signed by Francois-Pierre Jolly, known as Gaston Jolly, who became a master on May 6, 1784, whose workshop was then located on rue des Arcis in Paris. Neoclassical clock at the altar of love under a portico of white Carrara marble columns and gilt bronze capitals. The dial is surrounded by a laurel torus and the shock absorber is decorated with an armillary sphere. 5-hand mechanism, original wire suspension without modification, indicates the hours and minutes, the numeral day calendar from 1 to 31, and the Roman calendar of the week with the correspondence of the planets and stars. Monday: moon, Tuesday: Mars, Wednesday: Mercury, Thursday: Jupiter, Friday: Venus, Saturday: Saturn and Sunday: sun. Serviced in a watchmaker's workshop Note: the armillary sphere was a reference to the geocentric model, also called the "Ptolemaic system", according to which the Earth is considered to be the center of the universe