MAKE A MEME View Large Image Sketch of a French Empire style lyre clock. Apollo.jpg en Watercolour gouache and pen and ink on laid paper Numbered 4 Dimensions 66 cm by 48 8 cm To be executed in gilt bronze and verde antiquo and black marble; enamel-set gilt bronze dial ...
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Keywords: Sketch of a French Empire style lyre clock. Apollo.jpg en Watercolour gouache and pen and ink on laid paper Numbered 4 Dimensions 66 cm by 48 8 cm To be executed in gilt bronze and verde antiquo and black marble; enamel-set gilt bronze dial The clock contained within the base of the lyre which has swan terminals to its arms suspending a swag in front of the strings headed by a rayed Apollo mask; the plinth with trumpet and interlaced wreath mount; raised on black marble platform Apollo one of the twelve gods of Olympus the highest Pantheon in the Classical world embodied the Classical Greek spirit the rational noble and civilised as opposed to the passionate and licentious side of man ™s nature represented by Bacchus Apollo was identified with the Sun god Helios who daily traversed the sky in his golden chariot marking the passage of the sun and therefore an apposite subject for a clock besides the additional Bourbon association with the Sun King Louis XIV The lyre was the attribute of Apollo as the patron of the performing arts and leader of the Muses see cat 39 The swan was associated with Apollo as it was supposed to utter a beautiful song at its death chiming with Apollo ™s patronage of song The lyre was by the Restoration a long-standing and frequently used motif for clocks originating in the Régence but first gaining great popularity towards the close of Louis XVI ™s reign as attested by the series of Sèvres lyre clocks by Kinable and others http //watercolours-drawings com/details asp subGalID 5 index 9 author between 1815 1820 PD-Art French Empire style mantel clock Sketches
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