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A MAGNIFICENT AND RARE GILT-COPPER AUTOMATIC STRIKING 'PAVILION' MUSICAL CLOCK
A MAGNIFICENT AND RARE GILT-COPPER AUTOMATIC STRIKING 'PAVILION' MUSICAL CLOCK
A MAGNIFICENT AND RARE GILT-COPPER AUTOMATIC STRIKING 'PAVILION' MUSICAL CLOCK
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A MAGNIFICENT AND RARE GILT-COPPER AUTOMATIC STRIKING 'PAVILION' MUSICAL CLOCK

QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)

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A MAGNIFICENT AND RARE GILT-COPPER AUTOMATIC STRIKING 'PAVILION' MUSICAL CLOCK
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)
29 3⁄8 in. (74.5 cm.) high
Provenance
Asprey & Garrard, London, 20 June 2001

Lot Essay

A closely related clock is in the Beijing Palace Museum, with almost identical moveable parts, illustrated in Qinggong Zhongbiao Zhencang, 'Timepieces in the Collection of the Qing Palace', Forbidden City Press, 1995, p. 55. (fig. 1)

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