细节
A Continental iron two-train weight driven chamber clock with alarm
Probably Dutch or German. Second half 17th Century
The iron scallop-arched dial plate painted with winged cherub heads at the top, indistinct silhouette city landscape beneath the gilt copper chapter ring with Roman numerals (1-12) and inner concentric Arabic numerals (13-24), single pierced steel hand, central calibrated alarm disk, the steel movement with square-section pillars, countwheel strike, alarm positioned to the right side of the plates, the bell secured to the top by means of a gilt brass knop, verge escapement with front-swinging pendulum, the side doors painted with the figures of St. Margaret standing on a dragon within an arched frame and the opposing door painted with St. John the Baptist, the iron backplate with iron spikes and suspension loop