A Louis Philippe ormolu striking long duration skeleton clock, the white enamel Roman dial with pierced blued trefoil hands, the centre with visible motion work, the twin going barrel movement with Brocot escapement with gridiron pendulum and countwheel strike on bell above, the plates supported on four plain pillars and four further fluted Corinthian columns supported on a rectangular acanthus moulded plinth

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A Louis Philippe ormolu striking long duration skeleton clock, the white enamel Roman dial with pierced blued trefoil hands, the centre with visible motion work, the twin going barrel movement with Brocot escapement with gridiron pendulum and countwheel strike on bell above, the plates supported on four plain pillars and four further fluted Corinthian columns supported on a rectangular acanthus moulded plinth
21½in. (54.5cm.) high

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An almost identical clock is illustrated in D. Roberts, Continental and American skeleton clocks, 1989, fig. 81

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