AN EMPIRE ORMOLU AND VERDE ANTICO CHARIOT MANTEL CLOCK

This famed model of clock, featuring Cupid riding Apollo's chariot, above a plinth embellished with a bas-relief with love attributes, is generally described as 'pendule au char de l'Amour'.
Among related clocks, a chariot clock, formerly the property of the Earls of Nottingham and Winchilsea, was sold anonymously, Christie's, London, 15 November 2001, lot 3. Further related chariot clocks are illustrated in E. Neiheuser, French Bronze Clocks, 1700-1830, Atglen, 1999, p. 240, n. 910, and in P. Kjellberg, Encyclopédie de La Pendule Française, Paris, 1997, p. 417.