Austrian Thirty-day Skeleton Clock

Austrian Thirty-day Skeleton Clock, c. 1840, the silvered case with two classical columns on an oval base with engine-turned beading and acorn feet, 6 3/4-in. dia. dial with Roman numerals within an engine-turned bezel, subsidiary dials indicating seconds at the top, day-of-the-month object right and month-of-the-year object left, sweep minute hand and pierced hour hand, thirty-day time only movement with maintaining power, dead beat escapement and decorative star wheels to advance calendars all powered by a silvered engine-turned weight and regulated by a pendulum, ht. 21 1/4 in. Provenance: Formerly in the collection of Norman Langmaid. Literature: The present clock is illustrated and discussed in Derek Roberts, Continental and American Skeleton Clocks , p. 154.