$27,060
Japanese Combination Lantern Clock and Pillar Clock, 19th century, the verge movement surmounted by a straight-sided bell over the balance wheel within a drum surround, floral engraved dial plate and side doors, dial with adjustable characters on the revolving chapter ring with dual calendar apertures below, fixed steel hand, all mounted on a traditional case of black lacquer with floral inlay of abalone, glazed slide on hood with silvered pierced side sound frets, the trunk with adjustable hour and half-hour plates, time indicated by the fall of the single silver-cased octagonal weight, ht. 55 in. Note: Please see Japanese Clocks , by N.H.N. Mody, plate 109, for another example of a combination clock.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2015-04-25
