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A FINE AUSTRIAN WALNUT, KINGWOOD, EBONISED AND PARCEL-GILT WALL REGULATOR
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the case surmounted by an ebonised and parcel-gilt urn embellished with swags of buried laurels and surmounted by a spray of flowers, the sides with walnut panels bordered with ebony and crossbanded with kingwood, the front with large diameter glazed lenticle and shaped glazed pendulum door, the moulded base with gilt-wood acorn drop-finial, glazed milled bezel to the convex Roman and Arabic dial with concentric calendar ring, finely pierced and chased elaborate ormolu hands, counterpoised blued steel seconds hand, the movement with arched plates and four back-pinned plain pillars, pull quarter repeat (some wheel work now missing), the five wheel train with deadbeat escapement with knife-edge suspended steel-rod pendulum with massive lenticular bob and fine crutch-piece adjustment, oval brass-cased weight
6ft.7in. (200cm.) high
unsigned
the case surmounted by an ebonised and parcel-gilt urn embellished with swags of buried laurels and surmounted by a spray of flowers, the sides with walnut panels bordered with ebony and crossbanded with kingwood, the front with large diameter glazed lenticle and shaped glazed pendulum door, the moulded base with gilt-wood acorn drop-finial, glazed milled bezel to the convex Roman and Arabic dial with concentric calendar ring, finely pierced and chased elaborate ormolu hands, counterpoised blued steel seconds hand, the movement with arched plates and four back-pinned plain pillars, pull quarter repeat (some wheel work now missing), the five wheel train with deadbeat escapement with knife-edge suspended steel-rod pendulum with massive lenticular bob and fine crutch-piece adjustment, oval brass-cased weight
6ft.7in. (200cm.) high