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Bronze helmet spark arrester, 19th century

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Bronze helmet spark arrester, 19th century This bronze spark arrester was made around 1880. Inside an architectural structure chiseled with volutes and leaves, a scalloped outline holds the screen of the fire arrester. The mesh, which is original and decorated with gridded and interspersed patterns, has a slight accident. The bronze piece is supported on either side by two column-shaped feet ending in four snail-shaped branches. On each column culminates a medieval helmet with a beautiful plume in the spirit of Théodore Gechter, a famous sculptor and bronze-worker of the first half of the century. Under the top of the breastplate, we can make out two laurel branches and a coat of arms decorated with a band and a point. Indeed, at the beginning of the 19th century, artists rediscovered the Middle Ages, a period until then totally set aside in favor of Antiquity. This bronze piece bears witness to this newfound taste for medieval themes.
  • Similar to:
    Jean-François Théodore Gechter (Artist)
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 31.89 in (81 cm)Width: 37.21 in (94.5 cm)Depth: 9.85 in (25 cm)
  • Style:
    Napoleon III (Of the Period)
  • Materials and Techniques:
    Wrought Iron
  • Place of Origin:
    France
  • Period:
    1880-1889
  • Date of Manufacture:
    around 1880
  • Condition:
  • Seller Location:
    SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
  • Reference Number:
    Seller: 156541stDibs: LU7662243990862

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