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A Gilt and patinated bronze Mantle Clock by Henry Dasson paris, Circa 1890
Estimate
18,000 - 22,000 USD
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Description
- height 27 in.; width 24 1/2 in.
- 68.5 cm; 62 cm
the enameled dial with Roman and Arabic numerals signed HENRY DASSON A PARIS set within an ovoid urn-shaped case, the flanking classical figures emblematic of Astronomie and Géographie.
Literature
RELATED LITERATURE:
P. Kjellberg, La pendule française du moyent age au XX ieme siècle, éditions de l' amateur, Paris, 1997, p. 214 for the original by the bronzier Étienne Martincourt, the dial signed Lepaute, now in the permanent collection of the Getty Museum, Malibu.