An attractive Dutch Louis XVI quarter striking musical longcase clock with automaton, Johannes Uswald 36.5-cm arched dial, engraved chapter ring with Roman numerals signed Johannes Uswalt Amsterdam, foliate pierced blued hands and subsidiary seconds, tune selection lever to the side, apertures for date, day, month and moonphase, well painted scene below depicting musicians playing for a noble couple and their two children outside their house, the musicians' arms connected to the substantial three train anchor movement with trip repeating Dutch rack quarter striking on two bells, an 18-cm cylinder musical mechanism playing one of twelve melodies every half hour with 28 hammers on 14 bells, mahogany case surmounted by a giltwood atlas and two angels, carved urn with trailing garlands in the moulded broken pediment above fluted fretwork, brass capped fluted corner columns flanking the glazed break arched door, trunk with canted corners, long door with rosette corners and urn lenticle, concave base with brass mounts to the corners raised on tapered feet 278cm. high including Atlas.
An attractive Dutch Louis XVI quarter striking musical longcase clock with automaton, Johannes Uswald 36.5-cm arched dial, engraved chapter ring with Roman numerals signed Johannes Uswalt Amsterdam, foliate pierced blued hands and subsidiary seconds, tune selection lever to the side, apertures for date, day, month and moonphase, well painted scene below depicting musicians playing for a noble couple and their two children outside their house, the musicians' arms connected to the substantial three train anchor movement with trip repeating Dutch rack quarter striking on two bells, an 18-cm cylinder musical mechanism playing one of twelve melodies every half hour with 28 hammers on 14 bells, mahogany case surmounted by a giltwood atlas and two angels, carved urn with trailing garlands in the moulded broken pediment above fluted fretwork, brass capped fluted corner columns flanking the glazed break arched door, trunk with canted corners, long door with rosette corners and urn lenticle, concave base with brass mounts to the corners raised on tapered feet 278cm. high including Atlas.
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