£530
Auction: Five Centuries
the cream painted dial with Arabic numerals, Arabic quarter hour markers and blued steel moon hands, in an arched case beside a figure of Minerva reading a book, on gilt toupie feet, the twin-train movement with outside countwheel, the backplate stamped Japy Frères and numbered '622, 72', striking the full and half hours to a gong, the pendulum stamped '622'; with a pair of urns en suite