Watercolour and gouache over lithographic line, on laid paper. Inscribed: j. B. A. Del / impri lithoue de c motte rue des marais no. 13 fb. St. Gn. Numbered: 24. Dimensions: 67. 4cm. By 50. 8cm. To be executed in gilt bronze and black marble; silvered metal dial; black marble platform. The god, standing full face with his legs crossed below the knee, leans against an altar while holding the thyrsus by his side and a bunch of grapes aloft, a ewer to one side. The altar is topped by a wine cup and fronted by a crouching figure of bacchus proffering a wine cup, having filled it from the amphora in his other hand. Bacchic imagery was commonly used for dining room clocks because of the association of the god of wine with feasting and merry-making. Date: between 1815 and 1820..
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