The Ehlen Collection, a Rhenish Private Collection (Cologne-Bonn)
A Dutch brass-mounted ebony and ebonized musical table clock, in the English George III manner, second half 18th century
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December 5, 03:41 PM GMT
Estimate
6,000 - 9,000 EUR
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Description
the 24 cm gilt bronze dial with silvered chapter ring, subsidiaries for slaan/ niet slaan, speelen/ niet speelen and a melody selector at the arch, mock pendulum and date aperture, the posted three train fusee movement with turned knobbed pillars, verge escapement and Dutch half hour rack striking on two alternating bells, the pull-repeating musical mechanism with a 14,5-cm cylinder playing one of eight tunes with 24 hammers on 12 bells, with foliate engraved backplate,
50 cm high