Tropical-theme Gilt-brass Desk Clock

Description:

Tropical-theme Gilt-brass Desk Clock, France, c. 1860, with a man purported to be Robinson Crusoe in island clothing holding an umbrella topped with a parrot in one hand and a gun in the other, a tree trunk supports a 1 3/4 in. porcelain Roman numeral dial surround by leaves, key-wind and set fusee watch movement, back plate marked Gaultier, a Paris, pierced balance cock, on a plinth with a monkey sitting between tree branches, ht. 9 in.
Estimate $300-500

Watch is running. Small reglued dial chips around winding hole.


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