Clock

Clock

• Localisation : The Prince’s Bedroom
• Année de création :Circa 1740
• Artiste :Anonymous

Description

This magnificent clock with Boulle tortoiseshell and bronze marquetry, lavishly decorated, is typical of the Regency period. The gilt-bronze feet form brackets and are adorned with women’s heads emerging from a volute of acanthus leaves wearing feather hats.

The lower part features a gilt-bronze bas-relief representing a half-naked woman, riding side saddle on a winged horse. The back of the case is decorated with a veneer of ebony and bronze marquetry, and at its centre features a bouquet of flowers in a vase amidst interlacing foliage. The dome is topped with a figure in the round depicting Time sitting on a sphere.