Clock the astronomy lesson by Claude Galle, Empire period around 1810

Beautiful bronze pendulum finely chiseled and gilded with mercury.
Model representing two young women seated in Etruscan gondolas and studying a map placed on a draped table on which rests an armillary sphere.
It rests on a rectangular base with a central projection decorated with a telescope, measuring instruments, a terrestrial globe held by winged putti and finished with six small feet with skates.
In the center of the table the white enamel dial indicates the minutes in Arabic numerals and the hours in Roman numerals, it is signed "Le Roy à Paris".
Silk thread movement, in perfect original and working condition, revised by our watchmaker.

High quality of carving and gilding with double matte and shiny patinas.

Parisian work from the Empire period around 1810.

The bronze case attributable to the master foundry carver Claude Galle (1759-1815) from an 1807 drawing by Jean André Reiche (1752-1817) kept in the print room of the Bibliothèque Nationale.

Similar models:
- Encyclopedia of the French Pendulum”, P. Kjellberg, Paris 1997, p.398, fig. D.1

- “Vergoldete Bronzen” H. Ottomeyer and P. Pröschel, Munich, 1986, vol. I, p. 374, Fig., 5.15.1. 2

- “Vergoldete Bronzen” H. Ottomeyer and P. Pröschel, Munich, 1986, vol. I, p. 374, Fig. 5.15.2.