decorated with bas-relief appliqués: mechanism case with motifs of bunches of grapes, a reclining Bacchante pointing to ...; base with vine vignette and horns of plenty;
clock face ceramic with Roman numerals of the hours, mechanism (working) with pendulum regulator, with Parisian system of beating the hours and half-hours; marking on the back of the clock mechanism plate, in a circle on the arc MENTION HONORABLE, inside the circle in italics: SMarti / et Cie ; no. 72;
case gilt chiseled bronze; 43 x 12.5 x 30.5 cm.
Preservation condition: cup missing from Bacchus' hand; key and pendulum included.
France, Paris, firm of Samuel Marti et Cie, ca. 1840-1850
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