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A gilded bronze clock, with the movement housed in a pedesta…
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129
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A gilded bronze clock, with the movement housed in a pedesta…
See original version (French)
Estimate €800 - €1,200
Voluntary lot
Description
A gilded bronze clock, with the movement housed in a pedestal, is surmounted by a seated woman holding a cornucopia and flanked by a celestial sphere bearing the signs of the zodiac. The base, decorated with a frieze of child musicians, is surrounded by vine leaves.
Date: first third of the 19th century.
Height: 65 cm. Length: 42 cm. Depth: 14.5 cm.
Missing: one foot, a rose on the sphere, the top of the garland in the woman’s hand, the pendulum and the key; the large hand is broken; wear to the gilding.
Schüller. Paris. Rue Jean-Robert, 1812. Rue Transnonain, 1830.
Ref: Pierre Kjellberg, *Encyclopédie de la pendule française*, Éditions de l’Amateur, page 394.
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