Large Empire Clock

Important TERPSICHOR CLOCK in carved, gilded wood. It represents Terpsichore, the muse of dance and lyric poetry, crowned with laurels, holding a lyre in her left hand. The lyre rests, next to the books and a laurel wreath, on a trapezoidal point, which houses a bronze shield. Surrounded by a snake biting its tail, it indicates the hours in Roman numerals and is underlined by a bas-relief representing the Genius of Art. The rectangular base is decorated with a bas-relief representing from left to right: two aede cupids singing and playing the lyre, Apollo teaching harmony to Calliope, and finally Cupid, the genius of inspiration, dictating a poem from another love that transcribes it. It rests on a rectangular base surmounted by an Empire period dome. Big. 79, Length. 51.5, width. 17.5cm.