280 - ARISTON - LATE 19TH-CENTURY HAND-CRANK PHONOGRAPH made of blackened wood with chiseled palmette spandrel decorations. The turntable features a lithographed paper rim with a polychrome decoration of child musicians.

ARISTON - LATE 19TH-CENTURY HAND-CRANK PHONOGRAPH made of blackened wood with chiseled palmette spandrel decorations. The turntable features a lithographed paper rim with a polychrome decoration of child musicians. The mechanism (needs servicing) is made of cast iron and gilded brass. The turned side posts. Signed on the side. 27 x 45 x 45 cm (crank added later) With six perforated cardboard discs: “The Blue Danube,” “Polka,” “The Bells of Corneville,” “Madame Angot’s Polka,” “Marlborough Goes to War,” “Moonlight Sonata” Provenance | Collection of Henri Dupuy de Lôme for his estate in the Var, then passed down through the family Biography | Stanislas Henri Laurent Dupuy de Lôme Engineer in the French Navy (Ploemeur 1816–Paris 1885). He built the first steamship, the *Napoléon* (1850), and the first armored frigate, the *Gloire* (1858), which served as a model for the navy of the Second Empire. Member of the Council of State and deputy for Morbihan. In 1870, he managed to get sixty airships out of besieged Paris. He had been a member of the Academy of Sciences since 1866.