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BARROIS ANTIQUES

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This decorative rooster is built in bent and hammered wrought iron: the body and the tail are drawn by wide ribbons of metal forming confronted scrolls of great economy of means, while the head, treated as a solid disc, bears a notched cut comb and wattles in flat irons. Gold-leaf gilding, slightly nuanced, animates the whole, mounted on a rectangular iron base with a brown patina.

This stylisation of the rooster — the French emblem par excellence — in a single graphic gesture belongs to the finest work of French metalworkers of the 1950s, who reinterpreted the traditional bestiary in a modern and pared-down language, between fine craftsmanship and decorative sculpture.

Condition report: Good overall condition. Original gilding slightly patinated in places, natural oxidation of the base, with no apparent structural loss. A sculptural object full of character, to place on a console, a fireplace or a library.

  • Period: Circa 1950
    • Price: £750.00
    • €897 Euro
    • $1,008 US Dollar
  • Location: France
    • Dimensions: H: 31cm (12.20in)
    • W: 19cm (7.48in)
    • D: 6cm (2.36in)