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A Biedermeier Part Ebonized, Parcel-Gilt, Alabaster and Fruitwood Grand Sonnerie Mantel Clock Circa 1825
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
bidding is closed
Description
- height 26in.; width 14in.
- (66cm; 35.6cm)
the enamelled chapter ring with Arabic numbers enclosing a gilt-brass automaton scene of Vulcan's forge with putti grinding and striking Cupid's arrows activated by strike trains, set within a drum-shaped case surmounted by an eagle and raised on columnar supports enclosing a mirrored alcove with a stained and inlaid floor, upon a plinth base of serpentine outline, the whole mounted with gilt-brass mounts.