A BLACK FOREST TOLE-PEINTE FIGURAL TIMEPIECE
A BLACK FOREST TOLE-PEINTE FIGURAL TIMEPIECE

MID-19TH CENTURY

Details
A BLACK FOREST TOLE-PEINTE FIGURAL TIMEPIECE
MID-19TH CENTURY
CASE: modelled as a clock pedlar, carrying a clock on his back and functioning timepiece to his chest, carrying pendulums in one hand, a walking stick in the other, on painted wooden plinth DIAL: the white enamel dial with Roman hours and Arabic quarter marks MOVEMENT: the single train timepiece movement with silk suspension, with pendulum
14¾ in. (37.4 cm.) high; 6 3/8 in. (16.2 cm.) wide; 5 in. (12.7 cm.) deep
Provenance
Probably acquired at St. Neots, Cambridgeshire, on 27 July 1926.
Literature
A.E. Richardson, Georgian England, Edinburgh, 1931, pl. xx.

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