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AN EMPIRE ORMOLU AND MARBLE WEIGHT-DRIVEN STRIKING KEYHOLE SKELETON CLOCK
unsigned
the 18cm. diam. foliate-cast bezel framing a narrow diameter white enamel Arabic annular chapter ring with finely pierced blued hands, the going and strike trains carried within a narrow vertical brass bar frame, pinwheel escapement with steel-suspended steel-rod pendulum, countwheel strike on bell via a hammer on a vertically positioned arbor, the keyhole frame with faceted right angle-feet supported on an oval black marble plinth
16in. (40.8cm.) high
unsigned
the 18cm. diam. foliate-cast bezel framing a narrow diameter white enamel Arabic annular chapter ring with finely pierced blued hands, the going and strike trains carried within a narrow vertical brass bar frame, pinwheel escapement with steel-suspended steel-rod pendulum, countwheel strike on bell via a hammer on a vertically positioned arbor, the keyhole frame with faceted right angle-feet supported on an oval black marble plinth
16in. (40.8cm.) high
Literature
Derek Roberts, Continental and American Skeleton Clocks, Schiffer, 1989, p.p. 90-92, figs. 76a and b.