Object Description
A Large Louis XVI Style Patinated Bronze and Rouge Griotte Marble Figural Pedestal Clock.
The patinated bronze figural group of Bacchantes is cast from a model by Claude Michel, known as Clodion (French, 1738-1814). It is set atop a Rouge Griotte marble fluted column filled with gilt-bronze flower chains. On a square foot with laurel wreath surround. Fronted by a dial with leaf-cast bezel and black enamelled dial with fine-minute markers and Roman numerals. Pierced and engraved brass hands. The brass twin train movement with outside countwheel striking on a bell, with pendulum and winding key.
The clock dial signed Agnew & Sons, Paris.
France, Circa 1900.
On a later simulated porphyry painted pedestal.
Height of pedestal: 92 cm | 36 inches.
Height together with pedestal: 216 cm | 85 inches.