Sold for:
$3,600
$3,600
Tropical-theme Gilt-brass Desk Clock, France, c. 1860, with a man purported to be Robinson Crusoe in island clothing holding an umbrella topped with a parrot in one hand and a gun in the other, a tree trunk supports a 1 3/4 in. porcelain Roman numeral dial surround by leaves, key-wind and set fusee watch movement, back plate marked Gaultier, a Paris , pierced balance cock, on a plinth with a monkey sitting between tree branches, ht. 9 in.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2013-05-04
