Lot 1018* - A211 Glamour and Sophistication: Luxury in 19th-Century Paris - Thursday, 28. November 2024, 10.00 AM
FIGURATIVE MANTEL CLOCK “LES GLANEUSES”
Paris ca. 1860. Signed on the base H. Dumaige (Henry Étienne Dumaige, 1830–1888). Foundry stamp Raingo on the base.
Gilt bronze and dark-lacquered sheet metal. Two young women walking, accompanied by a boy with a double flute, carrying a spherical clock with a child wearing a straw hat sitting on top. On a rectangular base, round at the front, decorated with playing putti, the side panels with applied openwork acanthus leaf volutes. The spherical case is decorated with Arabic numerals for the hours (digits 3 and 4 missing). Parisian movement with half-hour strike on a bell. (Pendulum, key and one hand missing).
H 75 cm.
Gilding partly tarnished. The movement requires revision.
The figures are a variant of the bronze group “les Glaneuses” by Dumaige, which was redesigned into a clock. In the original group, the two women carry a tambourine on which the child sits with a small sickle. One such group, inscribed on the base, was sold at Sotheby's New York, auction October 25, 2005, lot 448.
The figures are a variant of the bronze group “les Glaneuses” by Dumaige, which was redesigned into a clock. In the original group, the two women carry a tambourine on which the child sits with a small sickle. One such group, inscribed on the base, was sold at Sotheby's New York, auction October 25, 2005, lot 448.
CHF 5 000 / 8 000 | (€ 5 150 / 8 250)