A LOUIS PHILIPPE ORMOLU MANTEL CLOCK, commemorating the death of Napoleon Bonaparte, modelled with a figure of Liberty holding an urn inscribed Ste HELENE 5 MAI 1821 and a tasseled flag inscribed FRANCE 1840, with an eagle flanking, the circular gilded dial with roman numerals and trefoil hands, above an oval portrait medallion of the Emperor Napoleon and the initial N with crossed oak and laurel branches, the lower part with a rectangular landscape panel cast in high relief with a view of Ste. Hélène, flanked to each side by military trophies and with a recumbent lion below, on eagle-claw and laurel-cast feet, with twin-train movement and count-wheel strike on a bell (re-gilt )

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A LOUIS PHILIPPE ORMOLU MANTEL CLOCK, commemorating the death of Napoleon Bonaparte, modelled with a figure of Liberty holding an urn inscribed Ste HELENE 5 MAI 1821 and a tasseled flag inscribed FRANCE 1840, with an eagle flanking, the circular gilded dial with roman numerals and trefoil hands, above an oval portrait medallion of the Emperor Napoleon and the initial N with crossed oak and laurel branches, the lower part with a rectangular landscape panel cast in high relief with a view of Ste. Hélène, flanked to each side by military trophies and with a recumbent lion below, on eagle-claw and laurel-cast feet, with twin-train movement and count-wheel strike on a bell (re-gilt )
21½in. (54.7cm.) wide; 30in. (76cm.) high; 7½in. (19cm.) deep

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Louis Philippe, who adopted the Napoleonic tricolor on becoming the French king in 1830, later had the remains of Emperor Napoleon (d.1821) interred in the Hôtel des Invalides, Paris. The present clock commemorates their return from St. Helena in 1840.

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