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CROUTELLE, attributed AFRICAN NURSE CLOCK
In chased, patinat…
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330
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CROUTELLE, attributed AFRICAN NURSE CLOCK
In chased, patinat…
See original version (French)
Estimate €8,000 - €12,000
Voluntary lot
Description
CROUTELLE, attributed
AFRICAN NURSE CLOCK
In chased, patinated and gilded bronze, the dial inscribed in a bundle of sugar cane supported by a Nubian woman carrying her child in a bassinet suspended from her neck, resting on an oblong base ending in flattened ball feet.
Empire period
Height: 39.5 cm
(wear to the gilding)
Comparative bibliography :
P. Kjellberg, Encyclopédie de la Pendule Française du Moyen Age au XXe siècle", Les Editions de l'Amateur, p. 345. fig. F.
H. Ottomeyer, P. Pröschel et al, Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, vol. I, p. 381, fig. 5.15.27.
A drawing of this model signed by Croutelle aîné and dated 1807 is in the Bibliothèque Nationale. A clock of the same design is in the Musée François Duisberg in Mons.
See original version (French)
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