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A Dutch carved walnut quarter striking automaton table clock with musical movement Signed Gerrit Tervooren en Soon, Amsterdam, third quarter 18th century and later
26 October 2015, 10:00 EDT
New YorkSold for US$4,000 inc. premium
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A Dutch carved walnut quarter striking automaton table clock with musical movement
Signed Gerrit Tervooren en Soon, Amsterdam, third quarter 18th century and later
The waisted case surmounted by a carved urn and draped with vines, raise on paw feet, the painted dial with silvered arcaded roman and arabic chapter ring enclosing apertures for date and day of week and ringed winding holes in the gilt center, above a painted village scene incorporating an aperture for moon phase, the assembled villagers listening to an automaton figure playing a serinette while a fisherman dips his line, twin fusee movement with plain rectangular plates joined b knopped pillars, verge escapement, striking the hour on a bell with passing strike for the quarters on a smaller bell, formerly with contemporary musical movement, now with an adapted late 19th century cylinder music box movement, signed Ducommun Girod 12758, wound through and operated by levers in an engraved brass plate.
height 32in (81.5cm)
The waisted case surmounted by a carved urn and draped with vines, raise on paw feet, the painted dial with silvered arcaded roman and arabic chapter ring enclosing apertures for date and day of week and ringed winding holes in the gilt center, above a painted village scene incorporating an aperture for moon phase, the assembled villagers listening to an automaton figure playing a serinette while a fisherman dips his line, twin fusee movement with plain rectangular plates joined b knopped pillars, verge escapement, striking the hour on a bell with passing strike for the quarters on a smaller bell, formerly with contemporary musical movement, now with an adapted late 19th century cylinder music box movement, signed Ducommun Girod 12758, wound through and operated by levers in an engraved brass plate.
height 32in (81.5cm)