Importantes Montres de Collection
Geneva, Nov 13, 2011
LOT 453
TABLEAU À MUSIQUE French. The painting signed E. Tissot and dated 1886. Very fine, 8-day going, hour and half-hour striking musical clock painting, the music playing one of six tunes on the hour or at will.
CHF 4,000 - 6,000
USD 4,500 - 6,500 / EUR 3,300 - 5,000
Sold: CHF 5,000
C. Gilt wood framed oil on canvas, depicting a country village scene with fi gures and children playing by a tree, church tower in the background with the clock. D. White enamel, radial Roman numerals, outer minute track. Black steel hands. M. 9.5 cm square, brass with going barrels both for the going and the striking trains, anchor escapement, brass bob pendulum with silk suspension, striking the hours and half-hours on a gong with count wheel on the back plate. 33 x 10 cm musical movement, brass bed with pinned brass cylinder, playing six tunes on tuned steel teeth in a single comb on the hour or at will, brass fl y governor, pull-stops for start/ stop, tune change and continuation in the base. Dim. 92 x 73 cm. In good condition
