AN EMPIRE ORMOLU AND BRONZE MANTEL CLOCK WITH ROBINSON CRUSOE AND FRIDAY, Robinson Crusoë standing under a foliate parasol holding a flintlock rifle in his left hand, Friday kneeling before him under a fruiting tree with a parrot, the plinth case with Robinson sitting at a writing table and building a boat, the chamfered angles with cactus, the sides with goats reaching to vines of grape, enamel dial to the silk-suspended work with countwheel strike, green marble plinth, the clock with glass dome on japanned base containing a musical box playing six tunes on a cylinder,

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AN EMPIRE ORMOLU AND BRONZE MANTEL CLOCK WITH ROBINSON CRUSOE AND FRIDAY, Robinson Crusoë standing under a foliate parasol holding a flintlock rifle in his left hand, Friday kneeling before him under a fruiting tree with a parrot, the plinth case with Robinson sitting at a writing table and building a boat, the chamfered angles with cactus, the sides with goats reaching to vines of grape, enamel dial to the silk-suspended work with countwheel strike, green marble plinth, the clock with glass dome on japanned base containing a musical box playing six tunes on a cylinder,
the clock 53 cm high

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