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Geneva, Mar 16, 2008

LOT 9

Tableau à Musique French. Made circa 1850. Fine, 8-day going, hour and half hour striking, musical clock painting, the music playing two tunes on demand.

C. Gilt wood framed oil on canvas, featuring a hamlet and church around a pond in an Alpine wooded landscape with figures and a horse and cart in the foreground, the church tower with the clock. D. White enamel, radial Roman numerals. Blued steel arrow hands. M. Circular, brass with going barrels both for the going and the striking trains, anchor escapement, inverted crutch, brass bob pendulum with silk suspension, striking on a coiled gong. Musical movement: 34.5 cm., brass, pinned cylinder, single steel comb with 95 tuned vibrating teeth, large spring barrel, fly governor, pulls for start, stop and tune selection. Musical movement numbered 6487. Dim. 79 x 68.5 cm.