AUCTION : 1019

Lot#: 565

DESCRIPTION: Austria, a ceramic zappler timepiece with wooden base, the porcelain case with foliate ornament highlighted in gold, and further enhanced with blue and red accents, a central flower painting, and integral roman numeral dial below a dot and diaper field surmounted by a female mask, blued steel hands, and cow tail pendulum swinging before the dial,30 hour brass timepiece movement of standard zappler style, all mounted to an ebonized oval wooden base on three tiny, turned ivory feet
CONDITION: base with minor wear and losses to gilding, one leaf tip broken, movement dirty, click and click spring replaced, running, base with wear at step for dome, dome absent
ESTIMATE: $300 - $500
PRICE SOLD: $300
CIRCA: 1855
DIMENSIONS: 5.25in x 3.625in x 2.75in

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