DESCRIPTION:
Japan, an early 19th century Makura Dokei with calendar, the frame with ornamental, turned pillars, front plate with wave, sunburst and flying bird engraving, and calendar apertures above the rotating dial with fixed, blued steel hand and movable hour and half hour markers, the 30 hour, two train movement with fusee for the time train and and going barrel for the striking, verge escapement with light pendulum, and count wheel striking on a bell, in a shitan and unidentified hardwood case having glazed, sliding front and back frames, stepped, molded top with brass handle, and resting on a base with incurved feet
CONDITION:
movement good, plates polished, fusee chain broken, strike mainspring broken, trains complete and function with pressure, small drawer with key and fusee chain fragment, hand with minor oxide, fabric backed opening on one side of case broken, one sliding frame with small loss at lower left, a very nice example. Deaccessioned from the American Clock and watch Museum, Bristol, Ct.
ESTIMATE:
$3000
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$4000
CIRCA: early 19th c
DIMENSIONS: 8.5in x 6.625in x 4.75in
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