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A FRENCH BRONZE-PATINATED SPELTER GROUP ENTITLED 'LA SCIENCE GUIDANT L'INDUSTRIE',
Lot 824 Property of a Private Collector, St. Louis, Missouri

A FRENCH BRONZE-PATINATED SPELTER GROUP ENTITLED 'LA SCIENCE GUIDANT L'INDUSTRIE',

LATE 19TH CENTURY,

Fermé2 April 2009

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A FRENCH BRONZE-PATINATED SPELTER GROUP ENTITLED 'LA SCIENCE GUIDANT L'INDUSTRIE',
LATE 19TH CENTURY,
apparently unsigned, with engraved title plaquette, on an associate ebonised plinth
The group 41¾in. (106cm.) high

with Ivey-Selkirk Auctioneers, circa early 1930s
Mrs. Allen (Linnie) Swyers
Mr. Forrest Swyers
By descent to the present owner

Note du spécialiste

Another example of 'La Science guidant l'Industrie', supposedly exhibited at the 1889 Paris Exposition Universelle, was offered Sotheby's, London, 31 October 2006, lot 617.