DESCRIPTION:
Ansonia Clock Co., New York, "Juno" figural swinging clock, 8 day, time only, spring driven movement mounted inside a nickel plated brass sphere with cast ribbon ornament and applied Arabic numerals, with Louis XV style hands, all supported by patinated spelter figure of a Roman goddess standing atop a cast spelter pedestal.
CONDITION:
figure an unusually clean brown patination over the spelter casting. Very small losses in places. The sphere may have once had a colored finish, but now has a tarnished nickel plated surface. Hands and cast ornaments appear to be correct. Movement is signed by Ansonia Clock Co. and is also stamped "A 22 ".
ESTIMATE:
$1500
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$2000
PRICE SOLD:
$1200
CIRCA: 1900
DIMENSIONS: 7in x 7in x 28in
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