An Empire style gilt and patinated bronze mantel clock depicting Apollo the sun god driving his chariot, after a model by Pierre-Philippe Thomire 19th century

An identical clock case on a red marble base, made by Thomire, is in the collection of HRH Queen Elizabeth II, illustrated, Cedric Jagger, Royal Clocks, London, 1983, pp. 144-145. It was purchased in 1810 by George IV from a M. Boileau. Jagger further notes that another identical example was sold at the auction of the property of a French bronze-sculptor in 1829; the catalogue entry on that occasion remarked that Thomire's price for this model was 1,500 francs. Another virtually identical clock, also by Thomire, is illustrated, Tardy, French Clocks The World Over, Paris, 1981, 5^{th ed., vol. II, p. 274. Thomire produced other large-scale clocks which incorporated chariots such as the chariot of the seasons, illustrated, Jean-Dominique Augarde, Les Ouvriers du Temps, London 1997, p. 144, no. 108. Another clock depicting the chariot of Venus has a case made by François Timothée Matelin, illustrated, Augarde, op. cit., p. 144, no. 109. It was thought to have been part of the furnishings of Madame Mère at the hotel de Brienne, another was at the Tuileries in 1807, and a third at the Elysée Palace in 1809.}

This clock was exhibited at the Phoenix Art Museum from September 25, 1998 through January 10, 1999.