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Mantel clock Louis Seize style
Lost Art-ID
571726
Title
Mantel clock Louis Seize style
Place of manufacture
Frankreich
Datierung
1780 (um)
Object type
Group of reported objects
Material / Technique
marble, bronze, gilded
Height
72.00 cm
Description
Made of white marble and gold-plated bronze, in shape of a four-sided pyramid on flat, four-sided pedestal. The frontside decorated with relief of figures, below the dial two lions, partly covered by draped cloths. At sides trophies of arms and laurel garlands, on top an eagle with snake. On a black base of marble with post at the corners and chains of gold-plated bronze. The dial signed: „Marel à Paris.“ French, around 1780. Literature: Auktionskatalog Hans W. Lange, Wertvolles Kunstgewerbe, Berlin, 19.-21. Mai 1941, S. 46. Nr. 180 (DOI: external link)
Provenance
Collection Dr. Wilhelm Dosquet, Berlin, auction Hans. W. Lange, Berlin, May 1942
Published since
Contact
Dr. Sibylle Ehringhaus
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