'Pomone', A rare silvered and patinated bronze mantle clock
'Pomone', A rare silvered and patinated bronze mantle clock

CAST FROM THE MODEL BY RICHARD GUINO, CIRCA 1920

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'Pomone', A rare silvered and patinated bronze mantle clock
Cast from the model by Richard Guino, circa 1920
Surmounted by a nymph bearing a cornucopia of fruit, attended by a putto, marble base
18¼in. (46.5cm.) high
Incised mark GVINO and 1ère Epreuve, with foundry mark Ancienne Mon Colin Paris

Lot Essay

Cf: P. Kjellberg, Encyclopédie de la pendule française, Paris, 1997, p. 506, for an illustration of a numbered example.
This clock is the first model made before the series of fifteen followed, all were numbered, executed by Colin. Richard Guino, an able sculptor and student of Maillol, became the 'hands' of Auguste Renoir between 1913 and 1918, as the Impressionist master was paralysed by this stage.

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