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GERMAN, 17TH CENTURY
Details
A SEATED GILT-BRONZE MODEL OF A LION, FORMERLY AN AUTOMATON ELEMENT
GERMAN, 17TH CENTURY
on a later brass-inlayed ebonised base
7 ½ in. (19 cm.) high; 12 in. (30,3 cm.) high, overall
GERMAN, 17TH CENTURY
on a later brass-inlayed ebonised base
7 ½ in. (19 cm.) high; 12 in. (30,3 cm.) high, overall
Provenance
The Collection of the Rothschild family.
By descent to the present owners.
By descent to the present owners.
Literature
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
A. Kugel, Un bestiaire mécanique: horloges à automates de la Renaissance, 1580-1640, cat. exh., Paris, 2016.
A. Kugel, Un bestiaire mécanique: horloges à automates de la Renaissance, 1580-1640, cat. exh., Paris, 2016.