PICHON & NOUDEL-DENIAU, Commissaires-Priseurs
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Empire-period URN CLOCK in white marble, black granite and g…
See original version (French)
180
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Empire-period URN CLOCK in white marble, black granite and g…
See original version (French)
Estimate €400 - €600
Voluntary lot
Description
Empire-period URN CLOCK in white marble, black granite and gilded bronze, decorated with beaded mouldings, fluting and godrons; the sides feature ram’s-head mascaron motifs holding a movable ring and topped with a sphere; the dial is in white enamel with Roman numerals for the hours and a railway-track minute scale; the suspension movement is complete with its gong and pendulum, and appears to be in working order (not guaranteed)
Curved leg on a square plinth resting on patin-style feet with twisted godron mouldings
43 x 12 cm
(a small section of moulding is missing, minute chips to the marble; the sphere has been replaced by a similar one)
Provenance | Collection of Henri Dupuy de Lôme for his estate in the Var, then passed down through the family
Biography |
Stanislas Henri Laurent Dupuy de Lôme
Engineer in the French Navy (Ploemeur 1816–Paris 1885).
He built the first steamship, the Napoléon (1850), and the first armoured frigate, the Gloire (1858), which served as a model for the navy of the Second Empire. Member of the Council of State and Member of Parliament for Morbihan. In 1870, he succeeded in getting sixty airships out of besieged Paris. He had been a member of the Academy of Sciences since 1866.
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