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A French patinated-bronze and Noir de Namur marble garniture
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A French patinated-bronze and Noir de Namur marble garniture

THE FIGURES AFTER JEAN-FRANÇOIS-THÉDORE GECHTER, THE MOVEMENT BY LAUMAIN, PARIS, CIRCA 1849

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A French patinated-bronze and Noir de Namur marble garniture
The figures after Jean-François-Thédore Gechter, The movement by Laumain, Paris, Circa 1849
Comprising a clock, a pair of six-light candelabra and a pair of fire-dogs; the clock surmounted by a rider in armour, Charles Martel, attacking an unmounted knight, Abdérame, King of the Saracens, his horse lying below, on a rectangular base inscribed Ch. Gechter to the front left angle, on a stepped plinth, centred to the front by a circular dial inscribed LAUMAIN HER A PARIS, flanked to each side by victory trophies, on an outbreak spreading base; each candelabra surmounted by a helmet, flanked by six branches with sea-monster nozzles, supported by a knight in full armour, standing on a circular base, on an hexagonal waisted socle, centred by a frieze with masks and pateras; the fire-dogs en suite
The clock: 30 in. (76 cm.) high; 21½ in. (54.5 cm.) wide; 12½ in. (32 cm.) deep;
The candelabra: each 37½ in. (95 cm.) high (5)
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Lot Essay

Jean Francois Theodore Gechter was born in Paris in 1796 and died there in 1844. He studied under Bosio and Gros and exhibited at the Salon from 1827 to 1844, becoming a Chevalier of the Légion d'Honneur in 1837. He was a friend of Barye and towards the end of his career dabbled in Animalier sculpture, producing statuettes of greyhounds and equestrian subjects such as this one. This model of Le combat de Charles Martel et d'Abdérame, roi des Sarrasins was first presented at the Salon in 1833, where upon the minister of the Interior commissioned a cast.
A similar model, from the Louvre collections (OA 11337-11339) was recently exhibited at the 1991 Un âge d'or des arts décoratifs exhibition at the Grand Palais in Paris.

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