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AN EMPIRE PATINATED BRONZE, ORMOLU AND MARMO VERDE ANTICO STRIKING MANTEL CLOCK
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AN EMPIRE PATINATED BRONZE, ORMOLU AND MARMO VERDE ANTICO STRIKING MANTEL CLOCK

EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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AN EMPIRE PATINATED BRONZE, ORMOLU AND MARMO VERDE ANTICO STRIKING MANTEL CLOCK
EARLY 19TH CENTURY
The dial cast in relief with Roman chapters and two classical figures in the form of Jason reaching out for the 'Golden-Fleece' suspended from the branch of a dead tree, on a rectangular base with paw feet, the movement with bell strike and outside count-wheel, the eight day twin barrels movement (indirect wind) with silk suspension and coutwheel strike on bell
24½ in. (62 cm.) high
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The clock, evoking ancient virtue personified by the History of Jason and the Golden Fleece, depicts the Thessalian hero of the Alexandrian poet Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica in the act of retrieving the ram fleece from the bough of an oak tree. Its guardian draco-serpent sleeps at his feet; while Jason's shield, providing the clock-face, features a bas-relief of Medea providing juniper, with which Jason drugged the serpent. A version of this clock model is in the chateau de Malmaison; and another is illustrated P. Kjellberg, Encyclopedie de la Pendule Française, Paris, 1997 (p. 413).