DREAMS OF THE ORIENT - Charming pendulum-terminal in gilded and chiseled bronze Persian Style contained Leila, heroine of poetry » The Giaour, a fragment of a Turkish Tale » (1813) by Lord Byron (1788-1827).

Dial with Roman numerals for the hours and graduations for the minutes - Last third of the 19th century.

Sitting on a pouffe, a flaming brazier at her feet, a pensive young woman, dressed in " Turkish style » is backed by a terminal topped with a bulbous dome; the latter simulates the heights of an Ottoman Palace. Crested arches, tangled scales, and fleurons embellish the case containing the movement; striated drops, bezants, and pearls adorn the base. The latter, animated by offset curves, accentuates the theatrical scenography of our clock whose heroine represented is Leila, Circacian slave of the Turkish Emir Hassa. Her tragic loves inspired Lord Byron's romantic and poetic " The Giaour, A fragment of a Turkish Tale (1813).

Picturesque and Ottoman-inspired ornamentation place this clock in the plethora of decorative objects born from the craze at the Universal Exhibition in Paris in 1867 for the Style then known as "Persian" whose "lyou are charming fartistic antics » , who are " covered with palmettes, arabesques "" reminiscent of Kashmir fabrics » filled with distant reveries...or romantic conversations-such as can be aroused by the Confident which we also offer for sale.