A DRESDEN FIGURAL CLOCK-CASE with a detachable top modelled after J. J. Pradier as Sappho wearing striped and flowered clothes and sandals, seated cross-legged on a low stool supported by a lyre and with a musical score beside her, the shaped rectangular plinth enclosing the movement with white and turquoise sides applied with two satyr's masks and painted with bouquets, musical and pastoral trophies between moulded and marbled bands, on four scroll feet (Sappho's left leg and right foot re-stuck, restoration to lyre, crack to base, plinth with one foot detached and slight damages to other feet, small chips and restorations to top of plinth), imitation blue crossed swords and dot mark, circa 1880

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A DRESDEN FIGURAL CLOCK-CASE with a detachable top modelled after J. J. Pradier as Sappho wearing striped and flowered clothes and sandals, seated cross-legged on a low stool supported by a lyre and with a musical score beside her, the shaped rectangular plinth enclosing the movement with white and turquoise sides applied with two satyr's masks and painted with bouquets, musical and pastoral trophies between moulded and marbled bands, on four scroll feet (Sappho's left leg and right foot re-stuck, restoration to lyre, crack to base, plinth with one foot detached and slight damages to other feet, small chips and restorations to top of plinth), imitation blue crossed swords and dot mark, circa 1880
22¾in. (58cm.) high

Lot Essay

Cf. Paul Atterbury (Ed.), The Parian Phenomenon, Shepton Beauchamp, 1989, p. 76, Fig. 112 for a parian model of Sappho after J. J. Pradier, dated 1858

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