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Louis XVI-style CHIMNEY PIECE from the Napoleon III period, …
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271
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Louis XVI-style CHIMNEY PIECE from the Napoleon III period, …
See original version (French)
Estimate €1,000 - €1,500
Voluntary lot
Description
Louis XVI-style CHIMNEY PIECE from the Napoleon III period, in white marble and gilded bronze, decorated with beaded mouldings and floral scrolls, comprising
- A clock decorated with two small fauns playing music. The white enamel dial, signed ‘PUTHON l’aîné, Horloger de la Marine à Paris’, features Roman numerals for the hours, Arabic numerals for the tens and a railway-track minute track, crowned by a pair of birds amidst clouds and framed by ribbon-adorned laurel branches
The Brocot suspension movement, complete with its gong, balance wheel and key, appears to be in working order (not guaranteed)
Sliding feet
40 x 39.5 x 15.5 cm
- A pair of three-light candelabra decorated with a musician putto holding a bouquet of flowers
Column base with garlands of ribbon-adorned flowers and laurel moulding
Square base, glide feet
H. 52 cm
W. 28 cm
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
French naval engineer (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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