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PORTEFAIX CLOCK In chased, patinated and gilded bronze, repr…
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328
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PORTEFAIX CLOCK In chased, patinated and gilded bronze, repr…
See original version (French)
Estimate €6,000 - €8,000
Voluntary lot
Description
PORTEFAIX CLOCK
In chased, patinated and gilded bronze, representing a portfaix carrying on his back a haystack containing the movement, resting on an oblong base decorated with a monkey and palm trees, ending with flattened ball feet.
Directoire period.
Height: 35.5 cm
(Wear, missing)
Bibliography.
. P. Kjellberg, Encyclopédie de la Pendule Française du Moyen Age au XXe siècle, Éditions de l'Amateur, p.343, fig. D.
. G. Wannenes, Les plus belles pendules françaises de Louis XV à l'Empire, Edizioni Polistampa, p.312.
. Tardy, La Pendule Française du Louis XVI à nos jours, vol II, p.358 fig. 1.
See original version (French)
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