£2,375
Five Centuries: Furniture & Works of Art inc. Property of the Earls of Crawford & Balcarres | 609
Auction: Five Centuries: Furniture & Works of Art inc. Property of the Earls of Crawford & Balcarres
the arched silvered dial with Roman and Arabic numerals, and subsidiary dials for seconds, date, and Strike/Silent, inscribed in the arch JAMES SMITH EDINBURGH, the hood with swan-neck pediment and fret-carving, above a shaped trunk door flanked by fluted quarter columns and brass terminals, raised on a crossbanded plinth base, with bracket feet; the twin-train eight-day movement striking a bell
Provenance: The Earls of Crawford and Balcarres, Balcarres House, Fife, Scotland