JEAN SIMON DEUERBENIE, DIRECTOIRE BLACK & DORE PATINATED BRONZE MANTEL CLOCK, C. 1799, H 18 1/2″:W 13 1/2″. “Noble Sauvage”, titled “America”. By the French artist Jean Simon Deuerbenie. White enamel dial signed “Dumont a Paris” An identical clock is illustrated in Elike Niehuser, “French Bronze Clocks”, PA, 1999, p. 147, figs. 237, 238, as well as P. Kjellberg, Encylopedie de la Pendule Francaise, Paris, 1997, p. 352, figure B.
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