LATE 18TH CENTURY

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A LOUIS XVI BRASS AND STEEL MUSICAL AND STRIKING SKELETON CLOCK WITH REMONTOIRE
LATE 18TH CENTURY
CASE: the openwork frame surmounted by a star-decorated rotating sphere, the dials numbered '1-12' and engraved below; 'Anvers, Jerusalem, Samarkand, Surinam, J:ter Cere, Mindanao, kamtschatka, J.Ste Croix, San Jago, Pensa Cola' on an ebonised brass-line inlaid base, glass dome DIAL: the white enamel chapter ring with Roman hours, calendar dial below with days, month and date, the small watch movement below with paste-set bezel and white enamel dial, steel hands, indicating time and advanced from the beat of the pendulum, subsidiary dials to lower section for Changé/Repeté and Forte/Piano MOVEMENT: the twin barrel movement with remontoire, dead beat escapement, rotating pendulum and balance spring, countwheel striking on one bell followed by music at the hour, striking the other bell followed by music at the half hour, the musical movement with gut fusee playing three tunes from the 8¼ in. (21 cm.) pin barrel on fifteen bells via forty-one hammers
27 in. (68.5 cm.) high; 18¾ in. (47.6 cm.) wide; 9 7/8 in. (25 cm.) deep; 29 in. (73.7 cm.) high including dome

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Lot Essay

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
Derek Roberts Continental and American Skeleton Clocks, Pennsylvania, 1989, p. 35, Fig. 22.
Arthur W.J.G. Ord-Hume The Musical Clock, Ashbourne, 1995, p. 160. Both Roberts and Ord-Hume discuss a very similar musical skeleton clock, possibly by the same hand, signed 'J. van Hoof et Fils à Anvers' and dated 1796, it has an organ and a wooden pin barrel.

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