7,500 CHF
Cupid & Psyche French, the bronze in the manner of Pierre Philippe Thomire (1751-1843). Made circa 1850. Very fine and impressive, Empire-style, bronze and yellow marble, 8-day going, hour and half-hour striking mantel clock. Yellow veined marble clock case with arch-top, hinged palmette cast bezel, the fine bronze figures of Cupid & Psyche enbracing above, the front with applied bronze perfume-burner mount, rectangular marble base with applied swag and lamp mount, raised on paw feet. Gilt engine-turned with painted radial Roman numerals, outer minute track. Blued steel Breguet hands. Circular gilt-brass, going barrels for both trains, anchor escapement, silk suspension, outside countwheel striking on a bell. Dial indistinctly signed "Gal….. No. 93". Dim. 71 x 48 x 19 cm. Notes The bronze figures of Cupid and Psyche are particularly well cast and chased and must have been made by one of the best French bronziers copying the work of Thomire.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2011-03-27
