AN ITALIAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED ROSEWOOD MUSICAL GRANDE SONNERIE TABLE CLOCK
FIRST HALF 18TH CENTURY, PROBABLY ROME
DIAL: the cast brass break-arch dial with silvered chapter ring and matted centre, subsidiary dials for ‘SILET/SOAT’ and ‘I II’, ring to arch with two hands for date and age of moon and aperture for the moonphase disc, steel hands; MOVEMENT: the five-pillar three-train movement with gut fusee to chime (at hour) on six bells, spring barrel to Chevalier de Bethune escapement, silk suspension and short pendulum, spring barrel to quarter striking on two bells, feet replaced
36 in. (91.5 cm.) high; 28 in. (71 cm.) wide; 12 in. (30.5 cm.) deep
AN ITALIAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED ROSEWOOD MUSICAL GRANDE SONNERIE TABLE CLOCK
FIRST HALF 18TH CENTURY, PROBABLY ROME
DIAL: the cast brass break-arch dial with silvered chapter ring and matted centre, subsidiary dials for ‘SILET/SOAT’ and ‘I II’, ring to arch with two hands for date and age of moon and aperture for the moonphase disc, steel hands; MOVEMENT: the five-pillar three-train movement with gut fusee to chime (at hour) on six bells, spring barrel to Chevalier de Bethune escapement, silk suspension and short pendulum, spring barrel to quarter striking on two bells, feet replaced
36 in. (91.5 cm.) high; 28 in. (71 cm.) wide; 12 in. (30.5 cm.) deep
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