Tostain Mantel Clock, 19th Century

A model that meets all the criteria of the most demanding historicist style during the reign of Napoleon III, this mantel clock takes up the codes of the Louis XVI style with great seriousness. Entirely in chiseled gilded bronze, the white enamel dial signed Tostain, located at the Galerie de la Madeleine in Paris, indicates, in blue, the hours in Roman numerals and the minutes in increments of five in Arabic numerals.
Crowned with cassolette and equipped with two handles set in lions’ mouths, this clock decorated with chiseled garlands and punctuated by scrolling acanthus leaves is in perfect condition.