Watercolor and gouache over lithographic line, on paper. Inscribed: j. B. A. / imprie lithoue de c. Motte rue des marais no. 13 fb st gn. Numbered: 27. Dimensions: 67. 4 cm. By 50. 8 cm. To be executed in gilt bronze; silvered metal dial. The god, winged and in a tunic, playing a lyre while seated on a plinth fronted by the clock, his bow and quiver lain aside, a flambeau adorned with his laurel crown, the frieze with swans, urns, cornucopiae and a vase of flowers. Related clocks are known with the composition in reverse, and with a figure of apollo not cupid. Date: between 1815 and 1820..
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