Lot 530 | France | BRONZE PENDULUM WITH BACCHANTE

BRONZE PENDULUM WITH BACCHANTE.

France.
Date: 1st half 19th c.
Maker/Designer: Presumably after a model by André-Antoine Raviro.
Technique: Bronze, fire-gilded.
Description: On an oval base young bacchante with moving antique garment in a dancer-like movement.
Balancing a rod on her right shoulder and attached to this the drum-formed clock case with
bells and cymbals. Enamel dial with Roman numerals. 14-day-pendulum movment with thread
suspension, half-hour chime on bell.
Measurement: 39x23x11cm.
Enamelled dial chipped at the winding holes.
Enclosed: P/S.


Literature:
Niehüser, Elke: Die französische Bronzeuhr, Munich 1997. The model is depicted p.230, no.665.

A pendulum of the same model with minor changes in its details can be found in a collection of the Kunstgewerbemuseum in Dresden.