Table clock; France, c. 1850.

Table clock; France, c. 1850.
Gilded bronze.

Preserves key and pendulum.
Measurements: 35 x 30 x 10 cm.
Table clock with gilded bronze structure, historicist style inspired by French art of the Baroque period. It consists of a high pedestal of organic design with sides in form of volute, decorated in the front with a profuse work in relief composing a strictly symmetrical baroque design, based on tornapuntas, palmettes and big leaves. On this pedestal is placed the watch case with white dial, black Roman numerals for the hours and Arabic numerals for the minutes and Breguet hands. The upper area of the case is topped by the representation of a lady of the French court of the seventeenth century, dressed in an elegant costume.