Lot 1212 Dα

An Empire pendulum clock

Gilt and burnished bronze, blued steel hands, 14 day movement with half-hourly striking on a gong. Large mantle clock with figures of Cupid and Psyche on a tall, stepped plinth. Two of Psyche's fingers and the wreath lost, the minute hand replaced, the pendulum suspension amended from thread to spring. H 63.5, W 43, D 13.5 cm.
Paris, 1st quater 19th C., after a model by Claude Michallon, Paris c. 1814.