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"Rare and spectacular bronze trim by Charles Cumberworth taking up the theme of the most famous 18th century novel ""Paul and Virginia"" written by Henri Bernardin de Saint Pierre and powerfully describes the feelings of love and the nostalgia of paradise lost. The model presented here is a very rare model, it represents a passage from the book, ""The passage of the torrent"", we find no trace of this model only on the book of Pierre Kjellberg ""Bronzes of the XIXth century; "" Metman reports The Passage of the Torrent, first cast by Boyer and edited also by SUSSE ""
There are two Creole slaves as double patina chandeliers as well as the two teenage children protagonists. Dimension candlestick 86 cm high by 29x22 cm. Dimension central pendulum in morello cherry and black marble, 70 cm by 53 x 25 cm. Period late nineteenth. Fonte de Susses frères. very good condition, two Roman numerals are missing on the dial Signature on the candlesticks and on the clock, and signature of the Susse house on the candlesticks."
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