| A 19th Century Viennese silver and enamel verge clock. Full plate gilt fusee Swiss circular movement. Finely pierced and engraved bridge cock with steel coqueret, plain three arm gilt balance with blue steel spiral hairspring. Silver regulator dial with blue steel indicator. Silver gilt
and polychrome enamel oval dial with circular chapter of Roman numerals in cartouches, blue steel hands. Silver and enamel oval case, blue enamel middle with applied cast silver and enamel masks to the side. Surmounting the clock a cast silver figure of Pan playing his pipes. The clock supported by a silver and enamel clip to enable it to be mounted upright on a piece of desk furniture. Polychrome enamel scene on the inside of the case depicting a girl
playing a lute in a woodland glade. The back of the case also with a polychrome enamel scene of a woman with two cupids, an unusual defect in the enamel running through its centre.
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