Featured Help: ca. 1880 French Clock with Bronze Sculptural Group

Ghopper's does not bear the Vincentie & Cie mark, one of the other movements did. It is very likely that these sculptural pieces were fitted with different movements.

 

Very elegant.

 

Kind of a not so funny Seinfeld.It's about being the coolest richest person in High School measured in terms of mansions,jewels,horses,railroads,etc.
Today's upper 1% gilded tech elite buy countries.

 

Well strictly speaking, the Glided Age barons did as well...JP Morgan, Rothschilds... They bailed out the American economy through multiple panics and it was said they owned the US because of it. Don't read the section about the railroads if you don't want Glided Age spoilers lol.

 

That's right Mirana- I remember a Sherlock Holmes that mentioned 'The Great Game'-'The Great Game was a rivalry between the 19th-century British and Russian empires over influence in Central Asia, primarily in Afghanistan, Persia, and Tibet.'
Suppose all of Colonialism was.

 

https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/56065219_french-statue-clock-douglass-ks

"French Statue Clock 38" Height Including Marble Base - Neo-Classical Bronzed Metal Statue Clock, Cherub Upheld by Two Draped Women Above Round Dial, Impressed Mark of Le Marti Et Cie Clock - Original Marble and Gilt Metal Base - Long Suspended Pendulum"

 

Awesome clock. Reminds me a lot of Victor Rousseau's work.

 

Here's another clock with a slightly different design, where they say it's based on Auguste Moreau's Retour du jardin
https://www.carlobonte.be/auction-lot/auguste-moreau-1834-1917-retour-du-jardin-a_D4F493985A#

No idea how they got to that description, as Retour du jardin looks like this

 

Based on Bacchantes et Amours, by Claude Michel (Clodion)?
https://www.mutualart.com/Artwork/Bacchantes/CDC40EB55BC7029803E4A2101014CCED

 

now that is a clock, I love it