LOT DETAILS
Materials:
ormolu and patinated bronze
Size Notes:
the plinth base: 22.2 x 22.2 cm
Description:
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Markings:
The dial Signed by Louis-Jacques Vaillant; Dial: the white enamel dial with Roman hours and Arabic quarter minute markers, blued-steel moon hands and signed ‘VAILLANT INVENIT’; Automation: a steel rod to the mechanism operating the bird stamped '..RNOVER(?)' (possibly incomplete, illustrated here)
Literature:
G. Martin, 'Resurrection of the Empress', Empire Magazine, undated, circa 1951
Provenance:
Possibly supplied to Joseph Bonaparte (1768-1844), when King of Spain 1808-1813 Possibly gifted by Joseph Bonaparte to Charles Jared Ingersoll, Philadelphia (1782-1862) and thence by descent to his grand daughter-in-law Adelaide Josephine Bond Ingersoll (1860-1947), Spring House Farm, Pennsylvania, by whom gifted to the Franklin Institute in 1936