Charles X Clock, Gilded Bronze With The Motif Of The Sciences, A Globe And A Woman Reading

This beautiful bronze clock, finely crafted, chiseled and beautifully gilded with mercury, is from the very beginning of the 19th century and from the Charles X period; a tribute to Science, this pretty piece is dominated by a celestial globe in blued steel, with on one side a remarkable guilloché column sheath topped with an elegant slender oil lamp. Around the globe, a laurel wreath, a compass and a protractor, to its right, an elegant woman standing, dressed in antique style, reads a book, her right elbow resting on her head, resting on the terrace of the clock. In the center, the magnificent dial with Roman numerals and guilloché in its center, decorated around the edge with a circle of finely chiseled blooming flowers, below, a pretty plume with beautiful volutes surrounds a slender cup. The base is decorated with a beautiful high relief of columns, garlands running from capital to capital, fire pots and an urn with horns of plenty at its feet, between the columns on either side a canopy loaded with fruit suspended from the columns. A beautiful piece of know-how from a Parisian Workshop of great elegance, symbolizing study and science.