French Novelty Automaton Industrial Clock

modelled as an industrial steam engine, with large automaton fly wheel and piston, driven by a large barrel housed in the base, the front ornamented with mock brickwork and furnaces, with silvered dials housed in drums with a clock, an aneroid barometer and a Reaumur thermometer, on rouge marble base, in presentation case, movement (A/F)

Measurements:

height 59 cm width 44 cm depth 29 cm (in case)

Provenance:

Private Collection, Sydney

Reference:

Cf. for comparison Derek Roberts Mystery, Novelty and Fantasy Clocks, Schiffer 1999, p.265, Fig.22-27, and the collection of the Science Museum of Victoria

• EStimate $5,000 - $7,000
• sold $14,727 Incl BP