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An Italian green-painted and parcel-gilt clock, Rome, mid-18th century

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September 26, 10:51 AM GMT

Estimate

8,000 - 10,000 EUR

Lot Details

Description

of waisted form, with a white enamel dial with Roman hours and Arabic minutes, signed Pellegrino/A...orotti/Rome and with silent/strike Non Suona/Suona designations, with a false pendulum aperture to the matted center, the twin barrel movement with four rear-pinned baluster-turned pillars, verge escapement and rack strike and alarm on two bells, the case profusely carved with flowers, foliage and C-scrolls, the arched top surmounted by rockwork issuing crossed sickles, the sides with sounding panels carved with pierced entwined branches, on scrolled feet, the gilding largely original

76cm high, 32cm wide, 17.5cm deep; 30in., 12 1/2in., 6 3/4in.

Dial diameter: 18cm; 7 1/8in.

Adolph Loewi, until 1962;

Christie’s, New York, 500 Years: Decorative Arts Europe, Including Oriental Carpets, 23 November 2010, lot 254.

San Francisco, Legion of Honor Museum, Time and Man, 1952, no. 36, (illustrated).

Kansas City, Missouri, Nelson Atkins Museum, Century of Mozart, 1956, no. 220.

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