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Lot 6
NO RESERVE Boffrand (Germain) Description de ce qui a été pratiqué pour fondre en bronze d'un seul jet la Figure Equestre de Louis XIV...elevée par la Ville de Paris..., engraved frontispiece, head-piece by Cochin after Boucher and 19 plates, 12 double-page or folding, a few plates numbered in ink in contemporary hand, small ink stains to frontispiece and facing French title, 1743; Livre d'Architecture contenant les Principes Generaux de cet Art, engraved head-piece by Tardieu after Boucher and 68 plates by Blondel, Herisset, Tardieu & others (numbered I-LXX but plates XXI & XLVII omitted), all but one double-page, with extension to plate XLIX bound at end (usually pasted as flap) and plate LI misnumbered XXXIII and bound after plate XXXIII, 1745, together 2 works in 1 vol., first editions, both with titles and text in Latin & French (text printed in double column), the Marquess of Bute's copy with his engraved armorial bookplate of Luton Hoo library, contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt with red morocco label, rubbed, spine ends and corners worn, joints split, [Berlin Kat. 2402 & Fowler 53, second work only; Millard French 30, 2 works bound together], folio, Paris, Guillaume Cavelier⁂ Two works by the one of most important French architects of the early eighteenth century, bound together as often. The first contains fascinating plates showing the casting of the great bronze equestrian statue of Louis XIV for the Place Vendôme in 1699, the largest bronze statue to be cast in one piece to that date. The plates depict the model, mould and wax, armature, construction of the furnace, and casting and finishing of the statue, celebrating the technological achievement as much as the work of art. The second features examples of Boffrand's work in Paris, Nancy, at Malgrange and the Würzberg Reisdenz.
Lot 216
A Baroque bracket clock (Stockuhr) by Johan Petz, Nikolsburg, the fusee movement with verge escapement and quarter hour repeat on two bells, the brass arch dial with enamel dial, four enamel medallions to the spandrels, moonphase, repeat/no repeat and strike /no strike dials. The ebonised four glass case with gilt painted fittings, flame finials and raised on gilt bronze paw feet. Moravia, 2nd half 18th century. 20'high x 12½' wide
Lot 425
AFTER LEONARD MOREL-LADEUIL (1820-1888) BOTH OF 'THE SEASONS DISHES' IN BRONZE each worked in repousse to depict figural panels interwoven with Renaissance imagery, foundry marks to the reverse, one 52cm wide, the other 50cm wideSimilar dishes were produced and exhibited in the late 19th century by Elkington & Co.
Lot 136
A bronze Caesar Augustus coin, obverse bust facing left and the reverse a figure bearing a shield between SC; Gladius Caesar coin, obverse bust facing left and the reverse figure bearing a shield between SC; Antonia bronze coin, obverse bust facing left and the reverse a figure clutching a staff and a Medieval French jetton 'Shield of France' type circa 14th-15th century. (4)
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