Hommage à la bacchante” Lepaute à Paris

“Hommage à la bacchante” Lepaute à Paris, No. 1376. Made circa 1860. Fine, Napoleon III, bronze, white marble and gilt bronze, 8-day going, hour and half-hour striking mantel clock in the Louis XVI style. Drum case surmounted by the reclining figure of a bacchante holding an upturned tazza of wine, on a litter draped with a tasseled cloth engraved with a caduceus above a grape and vine swag, supported on the shoulders of two opposing winged cherubs astride seated bronze goats, white marble base with ormolu bead, basketwork, cornucopiae and bacchic mounts, the whole raised on toupie feet. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track and Arabic five minute numerals. Gilt brass foliate pierced hands. Circular, gilt brass, cylindrical pillars, going barrels, anchor escapement, silk suspension, sunburst pendulum, outside countwheel striking on a bell for the hours and half-hours. Dial signed. Dim. 48.5 x 36.5 x 12 cm. Notes Literature: A clock of very similar desing is illustrated in: Tardy, "La Pendule Francaise", 1981, p.20.