CROUTELLE, attributed - Lot 330

CROUTELLE, attributed À LA NOURRICE AFRICAINE" CLOCK In chased, patinated and gilded bronze, the dial inscribed in a sugarcane bundle supported by a Nubian woman carrying her child in a bassinet suspended from her neck, resting on an oblong base terminating in flattened ball feet. Empire period Height: 39.5 cm (wear to gilding) Comparative bibliography : P. Kjellberg, Encyclopédie de la Pendule Française du Moyen Age au XXe siècle", Les Editions de l'Amateur, p. 345. fig. F. H. Ottomeyer, P. Pröschel et al, Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, vol. I, p. 381, fig. 5.15.27. A drawing of this model signed by Croutelle aîné and dated 1807 is kept at the Bibliothèque Nationale. A clock of the same design is in the Musée François Duisberg in Mons.