Object Record
Images
Metadata
Object Name |
Clock |
Catalog Number |
86.38 |
Collection |
Timepiece |
Other Name |
Bilderuhr |
Date |
c.1850 |
Description |
Picture clock with 30-hour spring driven time and strike brass movement. Viennese grande sonnerie on wire gongs with a pinned cylinder musical box. Oil paint on tin of pastoral scene with boy and girl eating berries in foreground. Monolith in background contains the clock dial. Silver two-piece dial with gilt bezel. Wood and gilt frame with ox eye border. "BITMA IR" stamped on gong support. Half-circle cutout in picture below the dial. |
Maker |
unknown |
Material |
brass, gilt brass, silver |
Place of Origin |
Austria |
Notes |
A 31733 7 slides in slide cabinet 1 |