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Sold White marble Lyre Clock (1303) Grande Marble & Ormolu Lyre Clock. Beautifully executed white marble Lyre Clock. The remarkable intricately and finely chased gilt ormolu bronze work includes wreaths, roses etc. The beautiful hands are also in the shape of a Lyre. |
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Sold Charles X Lyre Clock (SOLD) The head of Apollo, often depicted with his attributes The Lyre and the snake Python. Apollo was the god of Prophesy, music and healing. As a god of music, Apollo is often depicted playing the lyre. He did not invent this instrument, but was given it by Hermes to settle a feud. Apollo invented the lute although he was best known for his skill on the lyre. A clock like this is listed in the famous antique book "La Pendule Francaise" page 379 (item G). This clock is a late Charles X clock from around C1830. The mechanism is signed: Jques Cailly. It is an eight day movement with above exposed pendulum with outside counterwheel striking on a bell. Cailly was an earliest maker of the early lever escapement. He was best known as the maker of the finest automata movements during the late 18th and early 19th centuries, but along with the likes of Brequet and Garnier became involved in the early development of carriage clocks. Cailly is briefly mentioned by Charles Allix in his 'Carriage Clocks, their history and development' as on of the early innovators in the field, mentioned in the Paris "Exposition" records of the early 1800s. |
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Sold Marie Antoinette Boudoir Clock Louis XVI style Eleu du Roi porcelain and ormolu Lyre Clock with a gridiron knife edge supported moving pendulum bezel of paste brilliants. As the clock ticks the jewelled bezel moves from side to side catching the light. The arms are decorated with acanthus & rise to support the apollo sunburst. Even the hands in the form of a lyre. |