Monumental portico clock in white marble and gilt bronze, th - Lot 219

Monumental portico clock in white marble and gilt bronze, the uprights in the form of women draped in the antique style supporting the movement embellished with a fringed drapery decorated with griffins, pans, ... The whole under a molded entablature with friezes, adorned with a figure of Love activating the combustion of a fire pot with liquid from a ewer at its side; the rectangular base rounded at the ends, with a central projection, adorned with a frieze of four putti and a goat; and two side shuttle vases with Egyptian heads contained in oval niches; on the terrace in the center a music trophy in the round. Attractive large skeleton dial showing days, months, days of the week, hours, minutes and seconds; beautiful openwork hands; gadrooned feet. Late 18th - early 19th century. H. 60 cm - W. 43.5 cm - D. 14 cm BL Entablature repaired in the center, very minor chips to the terrace, but superb gilding. Sun pendulum, stamp.