A LATE 19TH CENTURY AMERICAN BRONZED SPELTER FIGURAL SWINGING PENDULUM MYSTERY CLOCK, modelled as a young maiden on a waisted cylindrical socle, holding aloft a rod which supports the circular clock case with Roman dial, forming the upper section of a grin-iron pendulum terminating in a bob with relief cast female bust, the pendulum oscillating without apparent impulse, the movement by Ansonia,

71cm high

For similar examples please see the Joseph M. Meraux Collection of Rare and Unusual Clocks, Sotheby's New York, 28 June, 1993, lot 474 and 477.