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A French gilt-brass musical and automaton carriage clock base
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A French gilt-brass musical and automaton carriage clock base

CIRCA 1860

細節
A French gilt-brass musical and automaton carriage clock base
Circa 1860
The case with foliate cast mounts to all angles, mirror-back rear door and housing an automaton figure of a Turkish tight rope walker set against a naturalistic background, musical movement housed in the base playing via 4.5 cm. long pin barrel, with manual trip to side
17¼ in. (18.5 cm.) high
注意事項
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 15% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

拍品專文

A musical and automaton carriage clock with alarm in a comparable case to the present lot and also with a Turkish tight rope walker sold Sotheby's New York, Masterpieces from the Time Museum, Part II, 19 June 2002, lot 213 and is illustrated, J. Fanelli, A Century of Fine Carriage Clocks, New York, 1987, pp.126-127.