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AN ITALIAN EARLY 18TH. CENTURY TORTOISESHELL QUARTER STRIKING BRACKET CLOCK
Giovanni Hisla, Naploi
the case on large ormolu mask-and-foliate scroll feet, the glazed sides with with convex-moulded frames, similar mouldings to the front door, the caddy-moulded top with gallery sound apertures (lacking frets), the top with four foliate finials enclosing a reposed figure of Chronos, the gilt dial signed in the arch Giovanni Hisla, Napoli within foliate engraving with calibrated regulation arc above with blued hand, steel lever beneath for the strike/silent, silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring with alarm wind aperture at XI, pierced blued steel hands, the matted center with ringed winding holes, calendar aperture and alarm disc in the center, the movement with five back-pinned baluster pillars, going barrels for the going and quarter strike on two bells in the galleried top via hammers on vertical steel rods, alarm on bell imediately above the movement, verge escapement with silk-suspended pendulum with regulation 'bridge' above
26in. (66cm.) high
Giovanni Hisla, Naploi
the case on large ormolu mask-and-foliate scroll feet, the glazed sides with with convex-moulded frames, similar mouldings to the front door, the caddy-moulded top with gallery sound apertures (lacking frets), the top with four foliate finials enclosing a reposed figure of Chronos, the gilt dial signed in the arch Giovanni Hisla, Napoli within foliate engraving with calibrated regulation arc above with blued hand, steel lever beneath for the strike/silent, silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring with alarm wind aperture at XI, pierced blued steel hands, the matted center with ringed winding holes, calendar aperture and alarm disc in the center, the movement with five back-pinned baluster pillars, going barrels for the going and quarter strike on two bells in the galleried top via hammers on vertical steel rods, alarm on bell imediately above the movement, verge escapement with silk-suspended pendulum with regulation 'bridge' above
26in. (66cm.) high