Paris, 19th century

Paris, 19th century

Clock with musician

Mercury gilded bronze with bell and carillon, cm 57 x 39 x 19

Elegant watch with music allegory in direct dialogue with the car case. A young woman, represented on the type of the dancing nymph or muse, raises a tambourine to the rhythm of music while the peplo that covers it is still caressed by the air tested by the movement. The percussion musical instrument, undoubtedly semantic parallel to the passage of time offered by the clock in its deaf repetition of the leather beat, is accompanied by two other instruments resting on the case. A lyre with a tinted resonance and decorated with swirls, crowning the two outer arms is a pair of rooster heads, in ancient Greece the symbol of music. Even the small head surrounded by digital rays, placed as a solar protome of the device, denounces the refined iconographic context from which the bronzer drew inspiration. The organological parenthesis is completed by a third instrument in which it is possible to recognize a thin bouzouki, a musical specimen of totally Greek imprint belonging to the cordophonic family. Called in the Byzantine era pandoura or tamboura, this object found a happy notoriety both in literary and material field, pride of the most capable musicians and experts in virtuosistically and quickly pinching the strings. The harmonic board of the instrument, circular rather than teardrop, suggests the ancient date on which the artist chose to represent the scene. 

The case of the watch, slightly off-center compared to the base, has a fine decoration in relief with a pair of mirror gyros placed on the sides of a lit torch and turned upwards, symbol of positivity. A similar decorative reconstruction occurs in the tripartition of the base, enclosed between a flowery contrast of leaves and pretty petals that spring from them. In the centre, a basket of flowers enclosed in a beaded bezel recalls the spiral crown that encloses the glass of the watch. 

The indication on the case à Paris certifies the location of the laboratory. 

This watch is enriched by a glass bell with music box operated by separate key. 

The object is in good condition

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