Gilt bronze and patinated bronze "Amerindian hunter"... Lot 24

Gilt bronze and patinated bronze "Amerindian hunter" clock symbolizing the discovery of the new world and representing the hunter on a feathered boat with a feathered loincloth, with a quiver holding a bow and arrow.It is perched on an openwork stand decorated with branches and berries, containing the enamelled dial with Roman numerals for the hours and rests on a rectangular curved base with musical nymphs and one of them holding a putto, finished with four small claw feet (restorations, reworked gilding) H. 57 cm W. 39 cm D. 13 cm A clock with the same subject was shown at the exhibition: - "Pendule au Nègre" St Omer Musée de l'Hôtel Sandelin from 29 April to 12 June 1978 "p.22 fig.12 and 13. - De Noir et d'Or", clocks "au bon sauvage", Brussels, Royal Museum of Art and History 1993. A copy is reproduced in the book of : - Elke Niehüser, French Bronze Clocks, Munich 1999, Schiffer Ed, p. 142 and 143. - Dominique and Chantal Flechon, La pendule au negre, Bulletin de l'Association nationale des collectionneurs et amateurs d'horlogerie ancienne, 1992, n° 63, p. 43. Although unusual for this model, the same base can be found on a clock in Elke Niehüser, French Bronze Clocks, Munich 1999, Schiffer Ed. p.236 fig 830.