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A SWEDISH GREEN-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT CLOCK AND BAROMETER
The circular steel dial with Roman and Arabic chapters inscribed 'Edw. Wicksteed/London.', the beaded and lappeted door within a fruiting laurel-wreath with glazing at the top, above the fluted shaft with egg-and-dart frieze and glazed beaded door hung with fruiting laurels, enclosing a barometer and thermometer, both inscribed in upper and lower case 'Joseph Molten/In et Facit Amsterdam' and dated '1779', above an oval medallion with a sickle and wheat-shaft flanked by flowering branches and a breakfront plinth centred by floral swags and flanked by flowerhead medallions, above a guilloche-band and a fluted tapering volute base with fruiting laurel-swags and foliate boss, with pendulum and no winder, glazing to clock face lacking, redecorated
65 in. (165 cm.) high
The circular steel dial with Roman and Arabic chapters inscribed 'Edw. Wicksteed/London.', the beaded and lappeted door within a fruiting laurel-wreath with glazing at the top, above the fluted shaft with egg-and-dart frieze and glazed beaded door hung with fruiting laurels, enclosing a barometer and thermometer, both inscribed in upper and lower case 'Joseph Molten/In et Facit Amsterdam' and dated '1779', above an oval medallion with a sickle and wheat-shaft flanked by flowering branches and a breakfront plinth centred by floral swags and flanked by flowerhead medallions, above a guilloche-band and a fluted tapering volute base with fruiting laurel-swags and foliate boss, with pendulum and no winder, glazing to clock face lacking, redecorated
65 in. (165 cm.) high