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Among the fireplace-clocks of late 17th & early 19th cc. in museum collection dominate ones made by French clock-masters at the period of Great French revolution and Napoleon Bonaparte's era.
These device had appeared in epoch of Empire  and represent the styling of Napoleon's Emporship that had made influence on all kind of applied art.
The artists had turned to ancient Greek and Roman art, to rich antique mythology.