Old clocks and watches & their makers, being an historical and descriptive account of the different styles of clocks and watches of the past, in England and abroad, to which is added a list of ten thousand makers (1904)
Britten, F. J. (Frederick James), 1843-1913 · London, B. T. Batsford · leaf 442
the lower part of the case.The band around the dialis pierced to a pretty design. It strikes the hours and quarters. Clocks with cases of a nondescript character, but abounding inormolu or gilt metal ornament so popular at the latter part of theeighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth centuries,… … Fig. 554. 428 Old Clocks and Watches and their Makers. Fig. 553 shows a remarkably well modelled figure of a harlequin,who is represented as drawing attention to the notes of the birdpeeping from an alcove above the dial. Clock hands do not as a rule lend themselves to decorationsymbolical of a…
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