A SOUTH GERMAN ORMOLU AND GILTWOOD SAGEUHR, the enamelled dial with Arabic numerals signed Berian London, within a ruby and diamond-paste outer border with ormolu laurel-wreath, the frame surmounted by a ribbon-tied sihouette portrait of George III, the vertical ratchetted-shaft upon a later giltwood backplate surmounted by a giltmetal eagle standing upon a domed stepped stiff-leaf plinth, above a part-beaded rectangular body flanked by pierced trailing vines and ribbon-tied apron, probably for the English market with inscription to the reverse K50972ETC & CATAL865-27 and with paper label v&7, late 18th Century, regilt

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A SOUTH GERMAN ORMOLU AND GILTWOOD SAGEUHR, the enamelled dial with Arabic numerals signed Berian London, within a ruby and diamond-paste outer border with ormolu laurel-wreath, the frame surmounted by a ribbon-tied sihouette portrait of George III, the vertical ratchetted-shaft upon a later giltwood backplate surmounted by a giltmetal eagle standing upon a domed stepped stiff-leaf plinth, above a part-beaded rectangular body flanked by pierced trailing vines and ribbon-tied apron, probably for the English market with inscription to the reverse K50972ETC & CATAL865-27 and with paper label v&7, late 18th Century, regilt
33in. (84cm.) wide

Lot Essay

A closely related Seuhr is illustrated in P. Heuer & K. Maurice Europaische Pendeluhren, Munich 1988, p.260, fig.542

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