EMPIRE MANTEL CLOCK CHARIOT A Lemoine AParis Circa 1810 France

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EMPIRE MANTEL CLOCK CHARIOT
Signed A Lemoine AParis
Circa 1810
France

Movement
The movement is a silk suspension 8 day going and bell striking the hours and halves by means of a countwheel.

Dial
The white enameled dial is set into the chariot wheel which has finely cast spokes and is signed by the maker A Lemoine AParis.

Case
The magnificent chiseled bronze and gilt case portraying the figure of Telemachus standing in his chariot which is being pulled by a pair of rearing patinated horses, at the front of the chariot is the head of a roaring lion and at the rear standing behind Telemachus is Athena, the warrior goddess wearing her helmet and holding in her left hand a shield cast with the head of Medusa and in her right hand a spear, the chariot and horses upon a rectangular base at each corner with upward projecting axe heads.

Duration 1 week
Height 45 cm.
Width 50 cm.
Depth 12 cm.
Literature
-Pierre Kjellberg, Encyclopèdie La pendule Francaise, 416-417.
-Tardy, Dictionnaire des Horlogers Français, p. 373.

The maker
Le Moine 1806-1812 Rue Geoffrol-Langevin in Paris, 1815-1820 Rue des Marais.