ROCOCO STYLE A Napoléon III Rococo style gilt and patinated bronze three piece clock garniture, France, third quarter 19th century, in the manner of Jacques Caffiéri

comprising a clock and a pair of seven light candelabra

Overall in good condition and presentation. Please note there is a winding key. Original gilding. Some minor knicks to bottom edge of marble.
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The superlative sculptural quality of the casting and chasing on this cartel clock with its luxuriant rocaille, flowers and foliage represents the pinnacle of the Rococo and is conceivably the work of one of the leading bronziers of the mid 19th century period in Paris. This model conveys the fluidity of movement with figures, cupids and dragons either precariously perched on top of the clock or clinging to the sides or apron, with a dragon emerging from the clock case.

Jacques Caffiéri (1678-1755) was a Parisian fondeur-ciseleur and sculptor and was elected maître fondeur-ciseleur shortly after 1715 and his earliest record work was the design for a Pall for the Corporation of Fondeurs-Ciseleurs, commissioned in that year. From 1736 onwards, he was constantly in the employ of the French Crown being appointed fondeur-ciseleur des Batîments du Roi and producing works for Versailles, Fontainebleau, Choisy, Marly and other royal palaces. Caffiéri's work was in the extreme Rococo style of which he was master.