Clock Louis XVI style late nineteenth lion pattern playing with a ball, bronze with brown and gold patina and white marble Berthou Movement

Rococo clock clock in silvered bronze signed E.GUBELIN in LUCERNE Switzerland late nineteenth

Empire clock signed Etienne TAVERNIER active in Paris between 1800 and 1830 "Androcles and the lion" Jump in search
Androcles removes a thorn from the paw of a lion.
Androcles was a Roman slave.
It is said that having been delivered to the animals in the Great Circus of Rome for escaping from his master, proconsul of Africa, he was recognized and spared by a lion. By escaping from his master's house and fleeing to the desert, he would have healed the animal and lived with him. Delivered to wild animals, he must die. However, the lion recognized him and showed him signs of affection. The Emperor, learning this explanation from the mouth of Androcles, graced him and gave him a lion's gift. Androcles took him on a leash all over the city, receiving money from passers-by.

Cartel in bronze radiating finely chiseled and gilded, the dial signed Brindeau in Paris indicates the hours in Roman numerals in enamelled reserves.
It is decorated with leaves of oak and laurel, arrows and quiver, a mascaron topped with a lion's skin and a palladium helmet.

mantel clock with patinated and gilt bronze, white marble base called "study" but often wrongly "study and philosophy" or "the marshals" model Remond François Louis XVI

Cartel Boulle marquetry shaped by Jean Jacques FIEFFE 1700-1770 received master clock in 1725 Louis XV
Fir wood, brown tortoiseshell, brass and gilt bronze, enamelled dial signed FIEFFE PARIS A motion signed arrant, the author of the movement of this work is Jean-Jacques Fieffé, as reported Watchmaker of the Observatory. For the execution of funds, he turned to great artists of his time as Severin or Marchand, and bronziers Saint-Germain or Caffiéri.
The Duke of Chaulnes part of its customers and found several of his works at the Wallace Collection in London, the Metropolitan Museum in New York or at J. P Getty Museum in Malibu.

Time clock frame gilt and patinated bronze, white marble, signed in Paris King Empire period (good working).

Cartel Barometer and gilded bronze, vintage early nineteenth Louis XVI style clock Chevrau in Paris barometer "Passement at Versailles."

Clock in gilded and patinated bronze, white marble base called "Aux Marshals" Ravrio bronzier circa 1785 (derived from the Villars Castle in Alier)

Patinated bronze clock and lamp shaped gilded with dual illuminated ancient, two winged cherubs facing warming before a flame ornaments decorated with winged dragons breathing fire, based on: laurel wreaths, twisted ribbons , horns of abundance and scrolling foliage. The dial signed BOFESCHEN in Paris "walking state.
This model invented and melted by the house "Thomire-Duterme and Co. to see 1810.et Tardy" pendulum under the French Empire "

Gilt bronze clock representing the Dauphin Louis XVII supported on a chair surrounded by toys, enamel dial, watch Madame Le Roy in Paris

Very original clock in gilded bronze and carved depicting a shepherd carrying a lamb and a putto feeding the pigs, enamel dial with Roman numerals is registered in the farm window.