Very important gilt bronze clock with a bacchante reclining - Lot 179

Very important gilt bronze clock with a bacchante reclining on a bed of rest tasting a grape on a rectangular base with a frieze of lions in front of a buffet, flutes and draperies and a base supported by four barrels. The dial marked "à Paris". Empire period H. 40.5 cm - W. 35 cm - D. 10.5 cm BL Minor chips to the winding holes. Comparative works: - "La liseuse sur un canapé", by M. Michel illustrated in Ottomayer & Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, volume I, Munich, 1986, p. 379, n° 5.15.19 - Model by Thomire in the Musée du Louvre, illustrated in Ottomayer & Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, vol. I, Munich, 1986, p. 379, no. 5.15.19 - P. Kjellberg, Encyclopédie de la Pendule Française du Moyen-Age au XXème siècle, Paris, 1997, p. 402, fig. C - Aguttes, 12 December 2006, lot 288 - Artcurial, 19 June 2012, lot 78