CIRCA 1799

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A Directoire ormolu, bronze and white marble blackamoor Pendule L'Amerique
Circa 1799
The drum shaped case surmounted by the figure of a negro huntress, in feather skirt and headress, with spear, bow and quiver, above the figure of a crocodile, in personification of the Continent of America, with white enamel Roman and Arabic dial, the twin train movement with silk suspension and countwheel strike on a bell
25in. (63.5cm.) high

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Lot Essay

Several other designs in this series were produced by Jean Simon Deverberie, such as L'Afrique and 'Indien et Indienne enlaci'. (H. Ottomeyer/P. Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, Vol. I, p. 380, fig 5.15.28). A similar example is illustrated in the Encyclopédie de La Pendule Francaise, Pierre Kjellberg, p.352, fig.A.

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