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A DUTCH WALNUT AUTOMATON LONGCASE CLOCK, signed Otto van Meurs, Amsterdam with bombé case, on lion mask feet inlaid with bands, the shaped trunk door with cast lenticle, the hood with plain columns and pierced gallery fret, the ogee caddy with Atlas and Herald finials, arched dial with engraved center, sector apertures for month and day with neiling nieties, date aperture and subsidiary seconds, the surround painted with mythological figures enclosing an automaton with moving ships; eight day Dutch striking movement playing six airs on fifteen bells, 19th Century
295 cm high
295 cm high