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Lot 555
Sale 950 - Property from the Halim Time & Glass Museum: Sold Without Reserve
Sep 24, 2021
2:30PM CT
Live / Chicago
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Estimate
$30,000 -
50,000
Price Realized
$22,500
Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium
Lot Description
A Chinese Ormolu Quarter-Striking, Musical and Automaton 'Acrobat' Mantel Clock
銅鍍金人偶翻杠水法跑鴨亭式廣鐘
modelled in a dual tier pagoda form; the base section housing the works of curving section, all supported on ornate curvilinear foliate feet. The enameled dial painted with Roman hour markers, set behind a hinging glass door to a gilt bronze panel beneath a cut-out metal automaton scene before spiraling glass rods simulating waterfalls. The upper section in the form of a chamber topped with a square sectioned roof with pointed eaves, surmounted in a gilt bronze finial all housed within an openwork gallery, having a complex figural automata of vaulting acrobats spinning about bars upon the opening of a red doored curtain before retiring to the left. The 8-day fusee movement operating a quarter hour strike on bells, or with a brass pinned cylinder to operate the automata function, all while music plays.
乾隆中後期經典廣鐘樣式。鐘分兩層,下層為曲線形箱體,正面有三針時鐘,大明火琺瑯羅馬數字盤。鐘盤上方拱形洞內有水法和跑鸭。上層為亭,亭內掛簾,機械開動后右侧門簾卷起,一对翻杠人偶前後移出,循入左門,樂畢亭內左侧門簾降下,下層水法和跑鸭同時轉動,非常活潑。同款鐘錶可參考北京故宮藏故00182806,故00182807及故00183146。
modelled in a dual tier pagoda form; the base section housing the works of curving section, all supported on ornate curvilinear foliate feet. The enameled dial painted with Roman hour markers, set behind a hinging glass door to a gilt bronze panel beneath a cut-out metal automaton scene before spiraling glass rods simulating waterfalls. The upper section in the form of a chamber topped with a square sectioned roof with pointed eaves, surmounted in a gilt bronze finial all housed within an openwork gallery, having a complex figural automata of vaulting acrobats spinning about bars upon the opening of a red doored curtain before retiring to the left. The 8-day fusee movement operating a quarter hour strike on bells, or with a brass pinned cylinder to operate the automata function, all while music plays.
乾隆中後期經典廣鐘樣式。鐘分兩層,下層為曲線形箱體,正面有三針時鐘,大明火琺瑯羅馬數字盤。鐘盤上方拱形洞內有水法和跑鸭。上層為亭,亭內掛簾,機械開動后右侧門簾卷起,一对翻杠人偶前後移出,循入左門,樂畢亭內左侧門簾降下,下層水法和跑鸭同時轉動,非常活潑。同款鐘錶可參考北京故宮藏故00182806,故00182807及故00183146。
Height 28 1/2 x width 12 x depth 8 1/2 in., 72.4 x 30.5 x 21.6 cm.
Property from the Halim Time & Glass Museum, Evanston, Illinois








