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Lot 858 Dα

A Parisian ormolu pendulum clock with the blind Homer

Auction 1184 - overview Cologne
19.11.2021, 11:00 - Decorative Arts
Estimate: 3.000 € - 4.000 €
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A Parisian ormolu pendulum clock with the blind Homer

Fire-gilt and burnished bronze, enamel dial, brass mountings. 14-day movement with thread suspension and half-hourly striking on a bell. The dial signed "Pienot Père A PARIS". The hands replaced. H 55.6, W 44, D 18 cm.
Paris, first quarter 19th C., the bronze attributed to Pierre-Victore Ledure.

Literature

Cf. a pendulum clock with a figure of Demosthenes in Ottomeyer/Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen. Die Bronzearbeiten des Spätbarock und Klassizismus, vol. I, Munich 1986, illus. 5.7.6.
The watchmaker in Tardy, Dictionnaire des horlogers français, Paris 3/1972, p. 521.