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A French small ormolu, brass and white marble eight day great wheel skeleton timepiece

FIRST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

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A French small ormolu, brass and white marble eight day great wheel skeleton timepiece
First quarter 19th Century
With inverted Y-shaped frame mounted on a marble plinth with canted angles, applied with ormolu relief panels and raised on hairy paw feet, with ormolu garland bezel to white enamel Roman chapter ring, pierced ormolu hands, chain and fusee movement, wheels with six and five star-shaped crossings, with pinwheel escapement; with associated glass dome and base, pendulum
12½ in. (31 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
Derek Roberts, Continental and American Skeleton Clocks, Pennsylvania, 1989, pp.73-75
F.B. Royer-Collard, Skeleton Clocks, London, 1969, p.66, fig.4-3.

Skeleton clocks of related design have been sold Christie's London, Important Clocks, 1 July 2005, lots 52, 53 and Christie's New York, The R.O. Schmitt Collection of Skeleton, Mystery and Novelty Clocks, 17 June 2005, lot 13. The clock illustrated in Royer-Collard is very close in design to the present example. Many of these Great Wheel clocks used fusees in the English manner.

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