DESCRIPTION:
Japan, an early 19th century Makura Dokei with calendar, the polished brass frame with ornamental, turned pillars and silvered, engraved frets at the corners, the 30 hour, two train movement with round plates, turned baluster pillars and chrysanthemum engraving, verge escapement with six arm balance, count wheel striking on a bell, and calendar apertures above the rotating, white jade trimmed dial with fixed, blued steel hand and movable hour and half hour markers, in a shitan wood case having glazed, sliding front and back frames, silk backed sound apertures with pierced, engraved frets, and molded top with ornamental brass handle
CONDITION:
frame and movement plates polished, one hour and one half hour marker detached from dial, hour marker present, jade with crack, one silvered ornament polished to brass, some steel components with minor oxide, fusee chain broken, lacking strike hammer, trains complete and will function with pressure, case good overall, lacking separate base, small drawer containing key, fusee chain fragment, hour marker and marker springs. Deaccessioned from the American Clock and watch Museum, Bristol, Ct.
ESTIMATE:
$3000
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$4000
CIRCA: early 19th c
DIMENSIONS: 7in x 6.25in x 3.875in
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