Antique Austrian or Austria Shelf Black Mantel Animated Clock

Price Type: auction
Sold Date: 11/3/2002
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Catalog Description:

C.1850, Austrian animated dial mantel clock. Ebonized mantel clock supported on the back of tortoises with decorative brass pendulum bob that swings behind and between them. Brass applied decoration, lion side pieces and a marble finial having brass snake handles. Porcelain dial with several hairline cracks and a small chip at 12:00. Original engine turned bezel and convex glass having a scratch (not crack) at 6:00. There are two quarter spandrels on the front of the case; bottom are absent. Brass center of the dial has an animated angel who appears (as the clock strikes) to strike an anvil with a hammer in her left hand, the work piece held in large pliers in her rigHeight hand. Very eye catching. Ht. 14" to top of finial. $950-$1,250

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