Boundary clock in sea-green marble and bronze with a medallic patina, representing Love and Psyche after a model by Claude Michallon. The white enameled dial with Roman numerals is set in a sea-green marble bollard, the rectangular base resting on small capital feet. Ornamentation of applied bronzes (disassembled). Brocot hanging lamp. 19th century. (With a pendulum. Restoration to the marble, movement not original, wear). H. 86 cm. The figures of Psyche and L'Amour are based on a model by the sculptor Claude Michallon (1751-1799), inspired by an ancient marble from the 1st or 2nd century AD, preserved in the Capitoline Museums in Rome, after a Greek original from the Hellenistic period. Michallon's model was a resounding success, being used to make important bronze clocks, notably by Pierre-Philippe Thomire (1751-1843), illustrated in Decorative bronze of Pierre-Philippe Thomire, Leningrad, 1984 (p.59, no.114). In 1816, Pierre-François Feuchère (1732-1823) exhibited a very similar project entitled Pendule de Psyché couronnant l'Amour. At the second Exposition des Produits de l'Industrie Française in 1819, Moléon gave a lengthy description of Feuchère's bronzes: "... Pendule représentant l'Amour et Psyché, superbe modèle exécuté par le même feu Michallon".