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| Keywords: Sketch of a French Empire style clock. A Bacchante.jpg en Watercolour gouache and pen and ink on laid paper Numbered 8 Dimensions 68cm by 48 3cm To be executed in alabaster; gilt bronze and enamel dial; black marble platform A voluptuous female figure reclining on pillows eating grapes from a bunch she is holding aloft a tambourine by her feet; the Greek key framed plinth with the clock dial flanked by rhyton horns; on foliate clasped ball feet Bacchantes Maenads in Greek who had a tambourine for an attribute were female devotees of Bacchus the god of wine This figure ™s swirling drapery is typical the pose of the figure expressing physical abandonment the grapes symbolic of feasting and the heady effects of wine Bacchic imagery was much employed on dining room clocks The immediate source for the reclining female figure in this design is found in a series of Empire bacchante clocks themselves based on a drawing attributed to Pierre-Philip Thomire in the National Museum Stockholm see Ottomeyer Pröschel II 708 25-26 That drawing and its associated clocks are supposedly derived from an earlier Empire clock model called La Liseuse assise sur une canapĂ© the design for which is in the Bibliothèque Nationale Paris Cabinet des Estampes fol 30 A clock of the Thomire model is illustrated in Ottomeyer Pröschel II 379 5 15 19; others were sold at Ader Paris June 18 1948 lot 21 signed Galle Ă Paris ; Christie ™s Monaco June 15 1997 lot 106 signed Vallant Paris ; French Co Collection Christie ™s New York November 24 1998 lot 44 signed Le Roy Ă Paris ; and Sotheby ™s Amsterdam October 16-17 2001 lot 450 signed Ravrio Bronzier Ă Paris / Mesnil Hger Identical clocks are in the Louvre Paris; Schloss Fäsanerie near Fulda Germany; and the Lever Art Gallery Merseyside England; another is illustrated in Kjellberg Pendules 402 http //watercolours-drawings com/details asp subGalID 5 index 20 Author between 1815 1820 PD-Art French Empire style mantel clock Sketches | ||||
