File:Jean-andré reiche, orologio da tavolo, parigi 1809 ca. 01.jpg

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English: Pieter Christoffel Wonder exhibition in Centraal Museum (2016). A well-known model of a chariot clock in the Empire style. The case portraying the figure of Telemachus standing in his chariot which is being pulled by a pair of rearing horses, at the front of the chariot is the head of a roaring lion and at the rear standing behind Telemachus is Athena, the warrior goddess wearing her helmet and holding in her left hand a shield cast with the head of Medusa and in her right hand a spear, the chariot and horses upon a rectangular base mounted on the front with four figures, most probably representing Telemachus, his father Ulysses, Calypso and the nymph Eucharis who sit either side of a tree upon a rock and are flanked at either end by laurel wreaths crossed by a ribbon-tied sword, each end of the plinth with further wreaths and supported at each corner by fasces with upward projecting axe heads. The subject of this superb clock is sometimes incorrectly referred to ‘The Chariot of Apollo’ or ‘Chariot of Diomedes’ however we know its true subject as a design for the model of 1807 by Jean-André Reiche (1752-1817), inscribed Char de Télémaque is in the Bibliothèque National de France, Paris).
Date 11 March 2016, 15:44:16
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