324. JEAN-ANTOINE LÉPINE (1720 - 1814). EMPIRE TABLE CLOCK WITH ALLEGORY OF PRUDENCE AND WISDOM, CIRCA 1810.
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Lot description
Mercury-gilded and bluing bronze. Enamelled dial with Roman numerals.
Paris movement. Signed Jean-Antoine Lépine (1720 - 1814). Lépine became a master clockmaker in 1765 and was appointed clockmaker to the King, serving Louis XV, Louis XVI and later Napoleon.
The allegory of Sound Judgement, or Prudence, is depicted by a classical figure with a sword. At the top of the plinth is an open scroll as a symbol of wisdom. The index finger of the figure's right hand points to the temple as a gesture associated with thought. The base of the dial is decorated with a snake coiled around a staff, which, together with the sword and the scroll, are elements associated with prudence. The set rests on a base decorated with a bas-relief centred by a rondel containing the two heads of Janus. In Roman mythology, Janus is the god of doors, beginnings and endings. He is depicted with two faces in profile, looking to either side, as a representation of looking to the future and the past.
There is a similar model in the Daily Dining Room of the Palace of Bourbons in the Royal Monastery of San Lorenzo del Escorial (Spain). In running order. Hours and half-hours chiming.
Keys included.
63 x 43.8 x 15.5 cm.
Literature: COLÓN DE CARVAJAL, J.R. [J. RAMON]. Catalogo de relojes del Patrimonio Nacional. Madrid: Editorial Patrimonio Nacional, 1987. P. 354.
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