“Aux Trois Graces” clock signed Lepaute Paris

"AUX TROIS GRACES" CLOCK, FRANCE, EARLY 19TH CENTURY, white marble; on a rectangular base, the front of which is carved in bas-relief with figures of cherubs among festoons and clouds, the Three Graces stand around a pillar surmounted by an urn containing the rotating dial (Circle tournant), and one of the figures indicates the time with a finger, 80 x 40.5 x 28 cm; dial signed Lepaute Paris.

Compared Bibliography

P. Kjellberg, Encyclopédie de la pendule française du Moyen Age au XX siècle, Paris

1997, pp. 288-289