Live Auction 6163Christie's Interiors - Style & Spirit
A NAPOLEON III ORMOLU MUSICAL AND AUTOMATON NOVELTY STRIKING MANTEL CLOCK
Lot 451

A NAPOLEON III ORMOLU MUSICAL AND AUTOMATON NOVELTY STRIKING MANTEL CLOCK

THIRD QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

Closed17 May 2011

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GBP 10,625

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A NAPOLEON III ORMOLU MUSICAL AND AUTOMATON NOVELTY STRIKING MANTEL CLOCK
THIRD QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
The rosewood and marquetry plinth containing music and automaton movements, under glass shade (not illustrated), silvered dial with applied chapters, blued steel hands, twin barrel movement with Brocot anchor escapement and strike on bell; pendulum, three winding keys
26 in. (66 cm.) high, excluding shade

Specialist note

A clock of closely related design sold anonymously, Christie's New York, 17 June 2005, lot 50 ($18,000). A further example is illustrated, Arthur W.J.G. Ord-Hume, The Musical Clock, Mayfield, 1995, p.191, plate IX/28.