SPRING ODE- Pendulum of Louis XVI style in chiseled and gilded bronze decorated with polychrome porcelain plaques in the style of Sèvres with delicate patterns of floral garlands, Cherub messenger of Spring. Second half of the 1870th century, around XNUMX.

  Directed by Louis Gaillot, Parisian Bronze Manufacturern established in the 1830s on rue Guérin-Boisseau, this lovely table clock plays with prettiness of the Louis XVI style.

Summoned by a flowery cup, it is adorned in the upper part with gleafy garlands dotted with hollyhocks in bloom or in bud, bellflowers, ..Falling corbels, leafy acanthus, fleurons, rosettes adorn its sides, punctuate its projection on the facade; a frieze of heart-shaped rai-de-coeur surrounds the belt.

Set with a string of pearls, the white enameled dial indicates the hours in Roman numerals, the minutes in Arabic numerals by two pierced and gilded bronze hands.

Under the latter, set in a curvilinear frame, is a framed porcelain plaque. Sky Blue gold varnished: surrounded by a vaporous drape, a Cherub smilingly composes a bouquet of hollyhocks-or Alcea, one of the attributes of Venus, goddess of love-scattered on clouds.

It is completed by three small porcelain plates with floral bouquet patterns and a course of flower garlands.

These charming porcelain pictures in the style of Sèvres balance the superb frounding of blooming flowers pouring out from the Vase who sum the clock; they exalt its thematic spring.

In the spring, bloom and blossom in unison Ftheir and feelings...To count down Time, the pendulum object leads us to revisit the Map of the Tender familiar with the Court of Marie-Antoinette or to delight in the present or future Springs!

The whole rests on four flattened ball feet.

       Architectural silhouette punctuated by a undulating ornamentation of gilded bronzeses, soft polychromy of the porcelain decoration inspired byand those produced by Charles-Nicolas Dodin (1734-1803) for the Vincennes-Sèvres factory, Tfloral hematic tinged with sentimentality are the key words of this clock. As such, it affirms its full identity within the watchmaking achievements of the Second Empire era, fond of declining the Louis XVI style for its refined aesthetics, its elegant femininity.

-Very good quality gilding;- Good condition of the porcelain. Movement restored by our watchmaker. In working order and guaranteed for one year.

-A descriptive and annotated notice of this delightful pLouis XV style terminal blockAnd a was written.