The London ClockMaker

French Empire Mantle clock. Depicting 'Aristides the Just'. 12½" (35cm) high 8½" (21cm) wide 3½" (9cm) deep. Circa 1805. Bronzed & Ormolu case mounted with 3 victory wreaths, 4 Napoleonic bees, a helmet, sword and a further wreath. Signed Henry a Paris serial number 3294. Silk suspension and count wheel striking the number on the hour and once on the half onto a bell.

£4,900 + vat

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Aristides or Aristeides, 530–468 BC, was an Athenian soldier and statesman. He was one of the 10 commanders who fought against the Persians in the Battle of Marathonunder Miltiades.

Aristides was nicknamed "the Just" because he was popularly recognized as never seeking personal glory or financial gain in his public service to the people of Athens. As a result, during his adult life, Aristides was asked to arbitrate many difficult private and public issues. Herodotus, writing just 40 years after the death of Aristides, said that "there was not in all Athens a man so worthy or so just as he".