Mantle clock (pendulum) Pendulum with a female figure leaning on a stack of books with a roll of paper in her hand, symbolizing Study or Science, Pendulum of gilt and patinated bronze and mahogany. The female figure leaning on a pile of books with a roll of paper in her hand symbolizes Study or Science, below the dial is Venus learning to read Amor, and the frieze with children's figures depicting the Arts and Sciences. Clock on the back plate signed: VULLIAMY / LONDON / NO. 492, stamped on front plate: 492. The currently missing pendulum was also numbered 492. On the backs of two books the inscriptions: PHYS / TOM.3 and ASTRO / TOMI. On the back of two of the bronze plates that compose the case, partially legible inscriptions in Latin with the words AMOR, EDUCAVIT AND VTRIVSO. Note: the work was replaced in 1811. The timepiece was replaced in 1811 in London by Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy, symbolic representations, allegories and emblems, science, 'Scientia', 'Scienza', 'Studio' (Ripa), anonymous, London, c. 1802 - c. 1803 and/or 1811, bronze (metal), oak (wood), mahogany (wood), gilding (material), gilding, h 68 cm × w 43.4 cm × d 21 cm
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