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A LATE 18TH CENTURY VIENNESE MAHOGANY AND PARCEL-GILT GRANDE SONNERIE STRIKING TABLE CLOCK
Johan Sachs
the case on toupie feet, gilt-metal sound frets to the sides cast with a central urn amongst birds and scrolling foliage, the stepped top surmounted by a gilt-wood scene of playing putti, the white enamel dial signed Johan Sachs above the mock pendulum aperture, concentric calendar ring with blued steel arrow-head hand, Roman and Arabic chapter ring with finely pierced and chased gilt-metal hands, unusual painted seasonal spandrels, subsidiary wind squares above XI and I for strike regulation (now vestigial), the movement with four conical pillars, chain fusee for the going train with verge escapement, resting barrels for the hour and quarter trains striking on two gongs
16in. (41cm.) high
Johan Sachs
the case on toupie feet, gilt-metal sound frets to the sides cast with a central urn amongst birds and scrolling foliage, the stepped top surmounted by a gilt-wood scene of playing putti, the white enamel dial signed Johan Sachs above the mock pendulum aperture, concentric calendar ring with blued steel arrow-head hand, Roman and Arabic chapter ring with finely pierced and chased gilt-metal hands, unusual painted seasonal spandrels, subsidiary wind squares above XI and I for strike regulation (now vestigial), the movement with four conical pillars, chain fusee for the going train with verge escapement, resting barrels for the hour and quarter trains striking on two gongs
16in. (41cm.) high