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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Apr 28, 2017 | Christie's | New York | Exceptional Sale | 23 | $****** - ****** | A GEORGE III ORMOLU QUARTER CHIMING MUSICAL AUTOMATON TABLE CLOCK |
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66 x 41.9 x 25.4 cm (26 x 16.5 x 10 in)
With Asprey, plc, London, early 1990s.
Arthur W.J.G. Ord-Hume, The Musical Clock: Musical & Automaton Clocks & Watches, Ashbourne, 1995, p. 186, pl. IX/20
The serpentine case with concave-moulded top applied with foliate swags and surmounted by an urn finial with ram's head mounts, with pineapple finials to the angles, elaborately pierced and engraved serpentine frets flanked by stiff leaves and trailing bell flowers, with foliate scroll mounts below and on conforming feet with garlanded bacchic mask below the glazed door, the white enamel Roman and Arabic chapter disc signed JOHN TAYLOR LONDON with finely pierced ormolu hands, within a florally-painted metal mask with automaton scene to the arch displaying rural figures and animals parading before a cascading twisted glass waterfall, further figures peering out from colonnaded ruins and a cottage at the sides, the substantial triple chain fusee movement with original verge escapement, hour strike on bell with quarter chime on eight bells via a pinned cylinder, automaton trip repeat, repeat signature on the backplate elaborately engraved with foliate scrolls
