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Lot 1441 Dα

A bronze model of a bull

Auction 1174 - overview Cologne
04.06.2021, 12:00 - Decorative Arts
Estimate: 14.000 € - 16.000 €

A bronze model of a bull

Cast in the round and mounted on an ebonised wood plinth. H 32.5, with plinth 43.3, W 45, D 21 cm.
France, mid-18th C.

Provenance

Renaissance to Baroque: A distinguished Southern European Collection

Literature

Cf. Tardy, La Pendule Française, 2ème partie, Paris 1969, p. 236 and p. 378, for two clocks with bull models.
Cf. the "Pendule au taureau" in the Deutsches Uhrenmuseum Furtwangen, inv. no. 2004-122, the bronze models attributed to Jean-Joseph de Saint-Germain.