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A miniature walnut longcase timepiece signed for Roth, London
18 – 19 April 2023, 10:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge£4,000 - £6,000
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A miniature walnut longcase timepiece
signed for Roth, London
the arched hood with deep concave mouldings surmounted by three brass finials over a blind frieze on brass-mounted Doric three-quarter and quarter columns, the concave throat moulding over a well-figured trunk door (with Meyrick Nielson trade label to the inside) on a cross-banded base and shaped plinth, the 9.5" arched brass dial with subsidiary date ring over elaborate spandrels, the silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring with floating lozenge half-hour markers enclosing the finely matted centre with running seconds and fine tapered blued steel hands, signed between V and VII Roth, London, the single barrel weight driven movement united by five knopped pillars with four-wheel train terminating in an anchor escapement, the winding square with pivoted shutter, 188cm high
the arched hood with deep concave mouldings surmounted by three brass finials over a blind frieze on brass-mounted Doric three-quarter and quarter columns, the concave throat moulding over a well-figured trunk door (with Meyrick Nielson trade label to the inside) on a cross-banded base and shaped plinth, the 9.5" arched brass dial with subsidiary date ring over elaborate spandrels, the silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring with floating lozenge half-hour markers enclosing the finely matted centre with running seconds and fine tapered blued steel hands, signed between V and VII Roth, London, the single barrel weight driven movement united by five knopped pillars with four-wheel train terminating in an anchor escapement, the winding square with pivoted shutter, 188cm high