c.1870 Rare Automated Singing Bird Carriage Clock.
Carriage /
French /
Novelty
Inv. #: f220
Maker: Japy Freres
Circa: 1870
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The gilt-bronze singing bird clock has a multi-piece case has decorative floral elements cast throughout, four detached decorative corner columns and beveled glasses to three sides. Above an animated bird set within a natural landscape is housed in a glazed framework surmounted by a decorative hinged handle.
Dial
The white porcelain dial has black Roman numerals for the hours and steel-cut tre-foil hands.
Movement
Clock Movement – The eight-day time and strike movement is wound and set off the backplate, has rack and snail striking on a bell and a cylinder balance platform above.
Animation Movement – The bird animation movement is housed in the base, wound and manually activated out the side and is linked to the bird above by thin chains that travel up the back of the movement. When activated it causes the bird to tweet and rotate side to side as it pecks the ground.
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