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CIRCA 1830
細節
A Victorian great wheel fusee skeleton timepiece
Circa 1830
The white enamel Arabic chapter ring with gilt hands and within an ormolu laurel wreath bezel, the ormolu inverted Y-frame movement with three pillars having rosette terminals, chain fusee and great wheel with eight crossings, spring barrel with crossed-out gilt cap displaying the spring, the delicate wheel train with five and six crossings and pin-wheel escapement with spring suspended pin-wheel escapement, white marble polygonal base applied with ormolu mounts of Medusa masks and playing putti, ball and hairy claw feet and purpose-made ebonised base, under glass dome
19 in. (48 cm.) high over dome
Circa 1830
The white enamel Arabic chapter ring with gilt hands and within an ormolu laurel wreath bezel, the ormolu inverted Y-frame movement with three pillars having rosette terminals, chain fusee and great wheel with eight crossings, spring barrel with crossed-out gilt cap displaying the spring, the delicate wheel train with five and six crossings and pin-wheel escapement with spring suspended pin-wheel escapement, white marble polygonal base applied with ormolu mounts of Medusa masks and playing putti, ball and hairy claw feet and purpose-made ebonised base, under glass dome
19 in. (48 cm.) high over dome
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