"Very Charming Clock, Louis Philippe In Black Marble About A Young Woman At La Fontaine"
This beautiful clock with a black Carrara marble frame and decorated with bronze scraps, leaves the same in belt and feet all finely chiseled. The so-called Paris movement, which dates from the first part of the 19th century, is Louis Philippe, of which it is by its very essence the favorite subject of the Bourgeois King Louis Philippe who had a taste for the peasant world and the return to less pompous values than his predecessor Charles In very good condition, the enamel dial and its golden crown, in short a piece which has not suffered any mistreatment. This piece is in height which allows it to highlight the delicate subject of this young woman standing leaning on the large jug placed on the body of the ached fountain with details spitting its water in the middle of a ground worked with herbs and foliage. She is remarkably well dressed, her angelic face slightly tilted to the right and holds a small flower in her right hand taken out of her folded apron which she leafs out while looking at it, like the passing of time. Treated with infinite gentleness the subject of 'a bronze patina medal is very pleasant and decorative for this piece which works, ticking off the hours and half of its silver stamp,