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A Viennese silver and polychrome enamel desk timepiece
the oval case surmounted by a seated bacchic figure playing the concertina, with painted panel to the reverse of figures representing the triumph of youth over age, the concealed interior side showing Cupid and a woman in an amorous embrace, the whole supported on the head of a turbanned figure in chain-mail and partially decorated with guilloche enamel, above domed base with individual painted roundelsdepicting mythological gods, with mask mounts between, on winged mask-headed cabriole feet, the dial with rising glass and inlaid with enamel birds and flowers, Roman chapter ring, the fusee movement with engraved back-cock, last quarter 19th century -- 8in. (20cm.) high
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the oval case surmounted by a seated bacchic figure playing the concertina, with painted panel to the reverse of figures representing the triumph of youth over age, the concealed interior side showing Cupid and a woman in an amorous embrace, the whole supported on the head of a turbanned figure in chain-mail and partially decorated with guilloche enamel, above domed base with individual painted roundelsdepicting mythological gods, with mask mounts between, on winged mask-headed cabriole feet, the dial with rising glass and inlaid with enamel birds and flowers, Roman chapter ring, the fusee movement with engraved back-cock, last quarter 19th century -- 8in. (20cm.) high
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