Clockwork With Automata, Austria, 19th Century

Rare and elegant fireplace clock
in wood and gilded bronze with an elaborate mechanism equipped with automatons.

Rectangular wooden support structure embellished at the base with a frieze with leaf motifs; circular dial with mermaid-like supports made in the round in gilded wood; circular dial with opening glass cover; white enamel outer disc with Arabic numerals; central part in gilded bronze with two automatons in the guise of winged cupids which - at the ringing of the gold and the quarters - start moving to simulate the forging of an arrow and its grinding.
Pendulum with bronze terminal modeled after a chariot of the time.

Watch in perfect working order, complete with its winding key.

Austria, early 19th century
cm. 45x36x14

Origin:
private collection, Vittorio Veneto (TV)