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Lot 135A

A 19th century Japanese table clock, or Makura Dokei, with double date indication

12 December 2012, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £2,375 inc. premium

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A 19th century Japanese table clock, or Makura Dokei, with double date indication

Surmounted by a bell and four turned finials on elaborately turned corner pillars, the rotating dial set with twelve adjustable hour and half-hour markers reading against a pierced steel hand, within an engraved brass mask with twin date apertures, the movement with fusee to the going train and spring barrel to the strike train, sounding the hours via a countwheel mounted on the engraved backplate, further supported on a part-ebonised stand Total height 14cms (5.5ins) high.

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A similar example was sold in the John Read Collection of Fine Antique Japanese Timekeepers, Bonhams Knightsbridge, 11 May 2010, lot 134.

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