Details
A Louis XVI barrel-organ clock-base
with twelve-air, eighteen-key fusee movement with eighteen metal pipes, key-operated constant-play and silent controls, clock-operated detent for single-tune play and pull-lever for change/repeat, in white marble case with ormolu mounts, balustrade and fretted panels to front and sides (right-hand side hinged), moulded with acanthus and a central front panel of musical instruments in an oval with strapwork border, on bun feet with plain brass doors to the rear -- 20¾in. (53cm.) wide, suitable for a clock base up to 7 x 16in. (18 x 41cm.) (sound weak, lacking one ormolu mount, old cracks in front of marble base)
with twelve-air, eighteen-key fusee movement with eighteen metal pipes, key-operated constant-play and silent controls, clock-operated detent for single-tune play and pull-lever for change/repeat, in white marble case with ormolu mounts, balustrade and fretted panels to front and sides (right-hand side hinged), moulded with acanthus and a central front panel of musical instruments in an oval with strapwork border, on bun feet with plain brass doors to the rear -- 20¾in. (53cm.) wide, suitable for a clock base up to 7 x 16in. (18 x 41cm.) (sound weak, lacking one ormolu mount, old cracks in front of marble base)
Provenance
Provenance: Mentmore sale, May 19 1977, Lot 446