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AN EMPIRE PATINATED BRONZE AND ORMOLU PENDULE AU SAUVAGE: 'LA NOURRICE'
Lot 15 THE PROPERTY OF A LADY

AN EMPIRE PATINATED BRONZE AND ORMOLU PENDULE AU SAUVAGE: 'LA NOURRICE'

CIRCA 1810

Closed22 September 2011

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AN EMPIRE PATINATED BRONZE AND ORMOLU PENDULE AU SAUVAGE: 'LA NOURRICE'
CIRCA 1810
CASE: the female figure with enamel eyes, supporting a bale of bamboo, formerly with baby suspended in a papoose from her neck DIAL: white enamel, with later hands MOVEMENT: lacking striking movement, now with battery movement
15¾ in. (40 cm.) high; 9¾ in. (24.5 cm.) wide; 4¾ in. (12 cm.) deep

Specialist note

For other models of 'La Nourrice' see H. Ottomeyer & P. Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, Vol. I, p. 381, fig. 5.15.27. The design was created by the bronzier Croutelle in 1807. See also the Duesberg collection in Mons (catalogue Musée François Duesberg, p. 59); another example -- also lacking the baby -- is in the Spanish royal collection. See J. Ramon Colon de Carvajal, Catalogo de Relojes del Patrimonio Nacional, Madrid, 1987, p 119.