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PENDULE MONUMENTALE A L`ELEPHANT

Lot 151
17.06.2022 10:30UTC +01:00
Classic
Sold
€ 201 600
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationFrance, Paris
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ID 778299
Lot 151 | PENDULE MONUMENTALE A L'ELEPHANT
Estimate value
€ 50 000 – 80 000
PENDULE MONUMENTALE A L'ELEPHANT

PROBABLEMENT DE LA FIN DU XVIIIe SIECLE, LA BASE ASSOCIEE

En bronze patiné, ciselé et doré, le cadran émaillé et signé Chles le Roy / AParis, surmonté d'un Amérindien, le tout reposant sur le dos d'un éléphant se tenant debout sur une terrasse rocheuse, la base rectangulaire ceinte d'une frise d'entrelacs ponctuée d'agrafes feuillagées, le mouvement associé et signé Chles le Roy AParis ; probablement avec un mécanisme musical à l'origine

H. 80 cm. (31 1⁄2 in) ; L.: 49 cm. (19 1⁄4 in.) ; P.: 32 cm. (12 1⁄2 in.)





Provenance

Collection Gabrielle Chanel dite Coco Chanel (selon la documentation d'Hubert de Givenchy);

Collection Hervé et Gérard Mille;

Galerie Didier Aaron, Paris.



Literature

Bibliographie comparative :

«?Hommage à un grand amateur?», Connaissance des Arts, n° 163, septembre 1965, p. 7.

P. Verlet, Les Bronzes dorés français du XVIIIe siècle, Paris, 2003, p. 199, fig. 228.

D. Alcouffe, A. Dion et G Mabille, Les bronzes d'ameublement du Louvre, Dijon, 2004, p. 142, n°67.





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A FRENCH MONUMENTAL ORMOLU AND PATINATED-BRONZE ELEPHANT MANTEL-CLOCK, PROBABLY LATE 18TH CENTURY, THE BASE OF LATER DATE
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