A NAPOLEON III MANTEL CLOCK, designed in the Louis XVI Grecian manner with embracing vine-and-ivy wreathed bacchantes, participating in the Eulisian mysteries; one holding festive ribbons embraces her companion, who stoops to retrieve her thyrsus (missing) with grapes, urn and pipes lying on the pearl-ringed and moulded columnar plinth, on a rectangular cloth-draped base with vase-capped 'herm' feet supporting a pearled bezel festooned with a 'poetic' ribbon tied laurel baguette , the glazed circular dial signed RAINGO FRES PARIS with pierced latted hands, the twin-train movement No. 1828 with countwheel strike 12¼in. (31cm.) wide; 26in. (66cm.) high; 10¾in. (27.5cm.) deep
A NAPOLEON III MANTEL CLOCK, designed in the Louis XVI Grecian manner with embracing vine-and-ivy wreathed bacchantes, participating in the Eulisian mysteries; one holding festive ribbons embraces her companion, who stoops to retrieve her thyrsus (missing) with grapes, urn and pipes lying on the pearl-ringed and moulded columnar plinth, on a rectangular cloth-draped base with vase-capped 'herm' feet supporting a pearled bezel festooned with a 'poetic' ribbon tied laurel baguette , the glazed circular dial signed RAINGO FRES PARIS with pierced latted hands, the twin-train movement No. 1828 with countwheel strike 12¼in. (31cm.) wide; 26in. (66cm.) high; 10¾in. (27.5cm.) deep
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