Louis XVI Style Clock-terminal In Marble And Gilt Chiseled Bronze

Prélude Bachique.-Pendulum-terminal Louis XVI Style in marble and chiseled gilded bronze figuring, seated on a small mossy mound, the forehead surrounded by a chaptel of vine leaves, a young Bacchant (made on a model of Louis-Charles -Hippolyte Buhot, 1815-1865, sculptor whose works the Maison Charpentier published in bronze from the 1850s?). This one is about to blow in a Pan Flute, a musical instrument associated with Bacchus, mysterious divinity of joy and creative fertility - some melodious or catchy tunes preluding to the Bacchic festivities. is based on a high oval base with a central projection surrounded by a frieze of posts. Molded ogee plinth. White enamelled dial with Roman numerals signed just like the movement: "Charpentier et Cie / Bronziers / Rue Charlot 8 in Paris" -, -notoire House of Manufacture of art bronzes and furniture regularly praised by "a large and fashionable clientele "attached to the" special character "of its watch parts, awarded many times during major industrial events for" excellence in its manufacture ".