A DIRECTOIRE ORMOLU THREE-MONTH GOING REMONTOIRE-STRIKING SKELETON CLOCK

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A DIRECTOIRE ORMOLU THREE-MONTH GOING REMONTOIRE-STRIKING SKELETON CLOCK
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the waisted frame on winged paw feet supported on a D-ended moulded plinth, foliate cast bezel to the annular Arabic white enamel dial with blued moon hands, the linear movement frame with large great wheel carrying the skeletonised spring barrel of the five wheel train with pin-wheel escapement with blued steel-rod knife-edge suspended pendulum, hour and half-hour strike on bell via remontoire-driven countwheel; rectangular glazed dome
16in. (40.5cm.) high (2)

Lot Essay

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
Derek Roberts, Continental and American Skeleton Clocks, 1989, pp. 90-3, fig. 78

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