CLOCK AND CANDELABRA GARNITURE. BRONZE, MARBLE. RAINGO FRÈRES, AARIA, CLODION. PARIS, FRANCE, SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY.

Clock and candelabra trim. Blued and gilded bronze, marble. Raingo Frères, Aaria, Clodion. Paris, France, second half of the 19th century. In operation. A garnish consisting of a table clock and two three-light candelabras each, made of bronze and white marble. The candelabras have legs and a circular base with a gilt bronze band with floral elements, and a child figure in burnished bronze with garlands of vines and grapes on the head, holding branches with roses and leaves, which end in candle holders; they have the name “Clodion” engraved on them. The clock has an elongated base on white marble legs decorated with gilt bronze plaques with figurative scenes (children playing instruments and carrying garlands) and others with plant motifs and lacework. The dial rises on a pedestal with animal heads, and, On a white background, it has garlands of colors and Arabic numerals for the hours and points and Arabic numerals every fifteen minutes; you can read “Aaria” on it. The piece is finished off by a kneeling faun, in a pensive attitude and pointing to two doves. Flanking this central element are two blued bronze figures of children playing French horns. On the Paris machinery you can read a number (448) and “Rango Fres / Paris”. The two candlesticks follow a highly appreciated model in the 19th century of a bronze figure of a bacchante (a usual figure in the procession of the classical god Bacchus) made by Claude Michel (1738-Paris, 1814), known as Clodion. This French sculptor, invited to Russia by Catherine II, established a workshop in Paris where he specialized in small-format Rococo style mythological sculpture in terracotta, stucco, etc., with such success that his works inspired numerous bronze makers to make pieces of sculpture, clocks , etc. Raingo Frères is the partnership of the four sons of the Belgian-born watchmaker Zacharie Joseph Raingo (1775-1847), Adolphe, Charles, Denis and Dorsant, formed in 1823. During the 1860s they made important pieces for Napoleon III and his wife, which are preserved in the Louvre Museum in Paris. Thanks to their well-deserved fame, they collaborated with prominent bronze makers and sculptors of their time, such as Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse or Auguste Moreau, and won a Gold Medal at the Universal Exhibition of Paris, 1889. Weight: 33.5 kg.

· Size: Reloj 46x12x55 cms. Candelabros: 30x17x43 cms.