Egyptian style mantel set, including a large clock and a pair of and a pair of candelabras in gilded bronze and cherry red marble. The central figure of representing the goddess Isis wearing a Nemes and holding and holding the dial with Roman numerals on a with Roman numerals, on a cherry red marble marble, surmounted by a drapery. It is flan - two pilasters representing an obelisk, mounted in gilded bronze panels in the imi - and surmounted by a canopic bull's head. of a canopic bull. The pair of candelabras depicts an Egyptian woman kneeling a Nemes surmounted by two arms of lu - gilt bronze lights. It stands on a gilt bronze gilded bronze and patinated with hieroglyphs and and cherry red marble. Empire period. Height of clock Pendulum: 54 cm - Height. candelabra : 55 cm. (Minor accidents and missing parts) Related literature : Thomas Hope, "Household Furniture and Interior Decoration", 1807, pl. VII, showing Hope's drawing of the of the Aurora Room in his London home with a clock of the clock of the same model. And pl. XIII, no. 3n showing Hope's more detailed Hope's more detailed design for this clock. Sylvie Chadenet, "Les Styles Empire & Restauration", 1976, p.25, pl. 2, a clock of similar design to the present to the present work, which was owned by Madame Maria Letizia, mother of Napoleon Bonaparte. Hans Ottomeyer and Peter Pröschel, "Vergoldete Bronzen", 1986, p.336, pl. 5.3.2, illustrating the present clock. This ornament is part of the aesthetic trend associated with Egyptomania, which developed under the Empire following the following the enthusiasm generated by the rediscovery of numerous during Bonaparte's Egyptian campaign led by Bonaparte between 1789 and 1801. The original composition of this clock, particularly this superb Egyptian figure, derives from certain designs by Parisian ornamentalists and architects created in the last years of the eighteenth century following Napoleon's Egyptian Campaign. We note that this Egyptian model was adapted by the bronzemaker Antoine-André Ravrio, almost certainly based on a model by the sculptor a model by the sculptor Louis-Simon Boizot (1743-1809), in the early Empire period. A very similar model is held at the Royal Pavilion Art Gallery and Museum and, like our clock, it also has a dial with Roman numerals. dial with Roman numerals on a cherry red marble cherry red marble. The candelabras were inspired by a model by Claude Gallé. They are to be compared with a pair pair forming a mantelpiece attributed to Claude Gallé Gallé (1759-1815), now in the Musée de l'Horlogerie in Musée de l'Horlogerie in Geneva, and illustrated in H. Ottomeyer, P. Proschel et al. Proschel et al, "Vergoldete Bronzen", Munich, 1986, Vol. I, p.338, fig. 5.3.6.