JEAN SIMON DEUERBENIE BRONZE MANTEL CLOCK
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 […]
