Apollo Pendule

A half-naked Apollo, the head crowned with foliage and covered with a bunch of grapes bearing a lyre from his right hand, sits on a circular dial where hanging a garland of vine. The signed dial is supported on both sides by rocks filled with a flute of Syrinx, a sharp edge and a drummer. This set rests on a moulded oblong base, a foot in the form of a toupie, adorned in the facade of a bas-relief, where there is a scene of bacchanal with the tank of Bacchus drawn by liones, accompanied by menades. bouquets overflowed with grape clusters and wheat spikes tied by a fine ribbon and large volutes frame the dionysiacal feast.
Among the other examples of this pendulum with the same theme, two pendulums carry a movement signed by Armingaud, the other by Bouretz, watchmakers in Paris at the end of the 18th century and at the beginning of the First Empire.
The clock appeared at the furniture of the villa Masséna during its furnishings by Victor Masséna d’Essling between 1900 and 1910.