A gilt-bronze mounted turtleshell, pewter and brass boulle marquetry quarter repeating table timepiece, South German, early 18th century

6¼-inch dial signed on the chapter ring Jo= Sch= Salz=, matted centre with date aperture, a regulation dial mounted below, the movement with four knopped pillars, anchor escapement with rise and fall regulation, pull quarter repeating with two hammers on a single bell, the pendulum engraved with a coat-of-arms, the case with inverted bell top and gilt urn finials above pierced and engraved side frets and canted scroll corners terminating in gilt ball feet

Haut. 56 cm; Height 22 in

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