WORKING WALL PENDULUM CLOCK WITH SCULPTURE - Master Gioacchino Meluzzi from Imola - Neo-Renaissance art

A purchase proposal is possible www.palazzodelbuonsignore.com Tel.: 3275865883 - 3312560700 Gioacchino Meluzzi (Imola, 1884 – Imola, 1953) Painter, sculptor, carver, cabinet maker. For many years he had his workshop at the Santa Caterina Institute, where he composed most of his works. He was a skilled furniture maker, sought after by the upper middle class and nobility who demanded artistic furniture. He was one of the greatest representatives of classical cabinet making in Emilia-Romagna with frequent and well-calibrated references to the Quattro-Cinquecento tradition of sculpture, especially of the Tuscan area. Important wall pendulum clock in solid mahogany with a propitious angel sculpted on the front with his face turned towards the dial. Two doors with locks. 4/4 German mechanism, marked Kienzle. It sounds like Big Ben. At the top the inscription in Latin "Ruit Hora", time flows. It is part of the important neo-Renaissance dining room by the same author that can be proposed as a whole as it was commissioned to the Master in 1930 (date and signature of the author are visible at the base of the bas-relief depicting the Madonna and Child). Italy - Imola - 1930 Measurements: Height 125.0 cm Width 40.0 cm Depth 21.0 cm.