An unusual brass skeleton timepiece with detent escapement, the foliate pierced frame with seven double-screwed pillars, chain fusee extended above the train, the unusual detent escapement with brass bob and ebony-rod pendulum, the silvered chapter ring having a large diameter seconds ring above VI and black painted hands, on oval alabaster plinth with glass dome (cracked)

细节

An unusual brass skeleton timepiece with detent escapement, the foliate pierced frame with seven double-screwed pillars, chain fusee extended above the train, the unusual detent escapement with brass bob and ebony-rod pendulum, the silvered chapter ring having a large diameter seconds ring above VI and black painted hands, on oval alabaster plinth with glass dome (cracked)
19¾in. (50cm.) high (3)

拍品专文

A similar striking clock with identical escapement is illustrated in Derek Roberts, British Skeleton Clocks, Antique Collectors' Club, 1987, p.152, figs. 3/65a-c