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Lot 5092

Meissen Porcelain Rococo Style Clock and Stand

Estimate: $3,000 - $5,000
Starting Bid
$1,500

Bid Increments

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$0 $1
$5 $5
$50 $10
$200 $25
$500 $50
$1,000 $100
$2,000 $250
$5,000 $500
$10,000 $1,000
$20,000 $2,500
$50,000 $5,000
$100,000 $10,000

Meissen Porcelain Rococo Style Clock and Stand, the baluster form clock with open lattice work from neck to top, and scroll molded feet, painted with courting couple in 18th century dress to front, and with floral sprays and sprigs scattered to sides, and back, encrusted with flowers to front, and with figure of Flora and two putti to left and right shoulders. Above the dome, stands a fully realized crowing rooster. Together with a rounded square base of conforming style and shape. Both painted in polychrome enamels and gilding. Clockworks to interior, not identified, appear to be Swiss or German. To base undersides of each, underglaze blue crossed swords, the clock incised N 2721, the base No. 655 and impressed 133. 20th Century. 

{Approximate dimensions: 21 1/2" H. x 11 1/2" W. x 6 3/4" D.}.

Clock with firing crack to rear left leg, opened up, and professionally repaired and overpainted. Both figural groups broken off and also repaired, the putti wings of smaller figure repaired twice and not professionally glued back on. Losses to flowers, including typical and more dramatic losses to leaves and petals, broken off and professionally repaired and overpainted. The rooster added later, the its base glued to top, the figure broken off at base and repaired and overpainted. Beak of rooster with chip, loss. Please request additional photographs.

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Property from the Collection of Frances and Ronald Dutro. San Francisco. Ronald Dutro was born in Oakland and began his lifelong opera career as a teenager with the San Francisco Opera. Frances Thanash was born in Fresno, and was a highly regarded singer in her right. After Ronald Dutro won the American Opera Auditions in 1959, he made his European debut at La Scala, Milan, Italy. The Dutros ended up staying in Europe for twenty-five years, where Ron sang baritone roles. The last fifteen years of their Continental sojourn, the Dutros lived in Berlin, Germany. There, they entertained a large variety of singers, including David Bowie.

 

The Dutros returned to San Francisco in the 1980s, where they re-installed their notable Salon room, filled with Meissen and other Continental Porcelains, Art Nouveau and later cameo glass, and their large collection of artwork by German Artist Richard Muller. Ron Dutro died in in 2006, Frances died in 2020.

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