A SWEDISH GILTWOOD CARTEL CLOCK, the circular glazed dial with Arabic numerals signed Joh. Nyberg STOCKHOLM, within a beaded slip, the domed C-scroll body carved with laurel-swags and roses, the shaped cresting carved with a wheatsheaf above panelled, glazed sides and a similar pierced boss with bifurcated finials and tapering base within flutes, stiff-leaf decoration and pineapple terminal, late 18th Century, one pane cracked

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A SWEDISH GILTWOOD CARTEL CLOCK, the circular glazed dial with Arabic numerals signed Joh. Nyberg STOCKHOLM, within a beaded slip, the domed C-scroll body carved with laurel-swags and roses, the shaped cresting carved with a wheatsheaf above panelled, glazed sides and a similar pierced boss with bifurcated finials and tapering base within flutes, stiff-leaf decoration and pineapple terminal, late 18th Century, one pane cracked
20in. (51cm.) wide; 40in. (102cm.) high

Lot Essay

Johan Nyberg, The Younger, naturalized as a Stockholm Burger in 1787 (d. 1801)

A cartel clock of 1780, with related floral garland and of similar design, signed by Daniel Aberg from Norrkòping, is illustrated in J. Tardy, 'La Pendule Française', Paris, 1970, Volume III, p. 809, fig. 2.

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