With the French Revolution and the Napoleonic era, French art focuses more emphatically than ever on the classics and is a source of inspiration for the whole of Europe.

With this clock, the function of time indication is incorporated in a design of a classic theme : a sleeping Amor in a decor of canopy with classic bed, the dormeuse.

Signed on the enamel dial : Thonifsen a Paris. Eight-day movement with bell . Dim. H41,Br 24,D 11 cm. France, Empire period, early 19th century. Rare model.