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Circa 1775
Sold
26 inches high
An exceptional pink and gold lacquered four-train musical table clock, made for the Ottoman market. CASE The case decorated overall with the original and unusual pink and gold lacquer ground painted with swags of summer flowers, foliage, husks and leaf fronds. The raised bell top with a central fretted pedestal with a large finial flanked by four further pedestals with correspondingly smaller acorn finials. The glazed sides with brass drop carrying handles, canted corners, the front and rear doors of violin outline and with pierced brass quarter frets. The base with a moulded, scroll-carved apron that is similarly decorated and standing on brass scroll feet. The interior washed in a red ground. DIAL The 8 by 12 inch violin outline dial painted with garlands of flowers on a gilt ground and signed Barbot, London on a foliate engraved recessed silvered sector to the arch, flanked by silvered subsidiary rings for Strike/Silent and four tune selection: Air Turc, A Jig, The Romeaca, Air Turc. The matted centre with mock pendulum and calendar apertures with blued steel hands. The chapter and date rings with Turkish numerals. MOVEMENT The substantial and fine quality movement has six knopped pillars securing the plates. There are four trains with gut fusees and spring barrels. The going train has a knife-edge verge escapement with bob pendulum; the hour train strikes on a single bell whilst the quarters chime on six bells via six hammers; the music playing on nine bells via seventeen hammers engaging the pin barrel. The backplate is profusely engraved with scrolling foliage and formalized strapwork with similarly engraved scrolling to the apron and cocks to the music barrel and fly.