Pendulum In Gilt Bronze Empire Period

Important Empire period pendulum in chiselled and matt and shiny gilded bronze depicting allegorical characters. She is summoned from a half-open cage in which Love is locked up begging Venus to free him. The enamel dial signed Thiéry Paris, indicating the hours in Roman numerals and the minutes in Arabic numerals is inscribed in a terminal decorated with foliage. She is flanked by two griffins with outstretched wings. The whole rests on a base, mounted on four claw feet, decorated with flaming quivers and centered with a bas-relief depicting a putto clinging to the tails of two sphynxes. It has its key and has been serviced. Very good state of conservation of its gilding. Parisian work from the beginning of the 19th century. A similar model is kept at the Palacio Real in Madrid.