An Antique mantel clock, 'La Renommée', Faisant à Paris, ormolu bronze, Empire period, Napoleon I, France, early 19th century.

An Antique mantel clock, 'La Renommée', Faisant à Paris, ormolu bronze, Empire period, Napoleon I, France, early 19th century. Fire-gilded bronze. Mantel clock or pendulum clock. Decorated with laurel wreaths, female heads (espagnolettes), rosettes, columns featuring palmette moldings and capitals, and openwork drapery. Finished with a frieze with two female figures or nymphs holding a chalumeau or shawm, a palm branch, and a laurel branch, representing an allegory of fame and renown ('L

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