{"id":4139,"date":"2022-03-05T13:08:46","date_gmt":"2022-03-05T13:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/collezioni\/cleopatra-pendulum-clock\/"},"modified":"2022-03-05T13:08:46","modified_gmt":"2022-03-05T13:08:46","slug":"cleopatra-pendulum-clock","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/en\/collections\/cleopatra-pendulum-clock\/","title":{"rendered":"Cleopatra pendulum clock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">CLEOPATRA PENDULUM CLOCK<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\">gilded bronze<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Gilt bronze Empire style pendulum clock with Cleopatra holding an asp in her right hand as she commits the tragic act of suicide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Her figure, at the top of the clock, is flanked on the right by a brazier, supported by three legs with lion-head heads and feet, with a snake twisting around the brazier itself, while on the left basket with various fruits and vegetables rests on a column.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The base of the pendulum clock is further decorated with a mythological scene of Cleopatra dying on a Roman triclinium bed while surrounded by vestals. The Emperor Octavianus observes the scene standing with two Roman legionaries behind him. One of them holds a spear garlanded with laurel and an effigy. On the right hand side a bust carries the initials J.CAE (Julius Caesar in Latin).<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The body of the clock is of gilt bronze; the clock face is white enamel.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\">France, beginning of the 19th century<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">cm 49x35x11,5<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4138,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"portfolio-types":[43],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/4139"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/portfolio"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4139"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"portfolio-types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio-types?post=4139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}