ID 1027596 
Lot 229  | A SEATED GILT-BRONZE MODEL OF A LION, FORMERLY AN AUTOMATON ELEMENT
Estimate value
$ 8 000 – 12 000 
GERMAN, 17TH CENTURY
on a later brass-inlayed ebonised base
7.48 in. (19 cm.) high
Provenance
The Collection of the Rothschild family.
By descent to the present owners.
Literature
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
A. Kugel, Un bestiaire mécanique: horloges à automates de la Renaissance, 1580-1640, cat. exh., Paris, 2016.
| Medium: | Gilt-metal | 
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| Art style: | Baroque, Old Masters | 
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, Germany, Europe | 
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects | 
| Medium: | Gilt-metal | 
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| Art style: | Baroque, Old Masters | 
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, Germany, Europe | 
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects | 
| Address of auction | CHRISTIE'S 20 Rockefeller Plaza 10020 New York USA | ||||||||||||||
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