Monumental Black Forest Carved Cuckoo Clock
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Monumental Black Forest Carved Cuckoo ClockÂ
Continental, early 20th century. An eight-day weight driven and quarter striking Black Forest cuckoo wall clock, the ornately carved case, possibly spruce, framed with vining oak leaves and acorns, having an eagle crest surmounting a peaked roof, the central wooden dial with bone hands and Roman numerals sits below two doors revealing a cuckoo bird and a male figure. The Lion of Lucerne (designed by Thorvaldsen) rests below the dial with the inscription HELVETIORUM FIDEI AC VIRTUTI / MDCCXCII (To the loyalty and bravery of the Swiss, 1792), commemorating the Swiss Guards who were massacred during the French Revolution in 1792. The movement has three cast iron acorn weights and a carved floral pendulum; ht. 51, wd. 33 in.
Continental, early 20th century. An eight-day weight driven and quarter striking Black Forest cuckoo wall clock, the ornately carved case, possibly spruce, framed with vining oak leaves and acorns, having an eagle crest surmounting a peaked roof, the central wooden dial with bone hands and Roman numerals sits below two doors revealing a cuckoo bird and a male figure. The Lion of Lucerne (designed by Thorvaldsen) rests below the dial with the inscription HELVETIORUM FIDEI AC VIRTUTI / MDCCXCII (To the loyalty and bravery of the Swiss, 1792), commemorating the Swiss Guards who were massacred during the French Revolution in 1792. The movement has three cast iron acorn weights and a carved floral pendulum; ht. 51, wd. 33 in.
Condition
Has weights. Case partly sun faded. One "cuckoo" figure replaced, the other one missing.
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Monumental Black Forest Carved Cuckoo Clock
Estimate $4,000 - $6,000
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