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EMPIRE-PERIOD ‘PENDULE AUX ARTS’ clock in gilded bronze, dec…
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EMPIRE-PERIOD ‘PENDULE AUX ARTS’ clock in gilded bronze, dec…
See original version (French)
Estimate 1 000 € - 1 500 €
Voluntary lot
Description
EMPIRE-PERIOD ‘PENDULE AUX ARTS’ clock in gilded bronze, decorated with a putto holding an architectural drawing, the gilded bronze dial, chiselled and signed FIELDSHELD (??), features a white enamel bezel with Roman numerals for the hours and a railway-track minute scale, and a double bronze bezel with a vine-leaf frieze
Suspension movement complete with gong and key, appearing to be in working order (not guaranteed)
The base is adorned with a bas-relief depicting two putti representing the Allegory of Sculpture and Painting
The plinth features a moulding of water leaves on four guilloché-patterned feet
32 x 33.5 x 13 cm
(gilding in very fine condition)
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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