A DUTCH WALNUT AUTOMATON LONGCASE CLOCK with bombé plinth, cast lenticle to the shaped trunk door inlaid with flower-sprays and arched hood with foliate bracket and pierced frieze and side frets, caddy top with Atlas and herald figures, the dial with subsidiary seconds, date aperture and weekday sector, the chapter ring with Roman and Arabic numerals signed Johannis de Ruyter Amsterdam above a parc view with two men and a girl on a swing, the eight day four pillar movement with rack strike chiming on two bells
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A DUTCH WALNUT AUTOMATON LONGCASE CLOCK with bombé plinth, cast lenticle to the shaped trunk door inlaid with flower-sprays and arched hood with foliate bracket and pierced frieze and side frets, caddy top with Atlas and herald figures, the dial with subsidiary seconds, date aperture and weekday sector, the chapter ring with Roman and Arabic numerals signed Johannis de Ruyter Amsterdam above a parc view with two men and a girl on a swing, the eight day four pillar movement with rack strike chiming on two bells
282 cm high
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