ID 778299
Lot 151 | PENDULE MONUMENTALE A L'ELEPHANT
Estimate value
€ 50 000 – 80 000
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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All items will be transferred to an offsite warehouse after the sale and will be available on 24 June 2022. Please refer to department for information about storage charges and collection details.
Post lot text
A FRENCH MONUMENTAL ORMOLU AND PATINATED-BRONZE ELEPHANT MANTEL-CLOCK, PROBABLY LATE 18TH CENTURY, THE BASE OF LATER DATE
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