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Objekt 6

Clock in the form of a harp with music automaton

Description

A particularly delicate musical mechanism is found in this clock in the form of a harp: It lies above the clock in the back part of the harp and is wound separately. A similar object is in the clock collection of the Musées d'art et d'histoire in Geneva.

Object description

Geneva, early 19th c.

Gold, enamel, diamonds

Bequest Carl and Lini Nathan-Rupp, Binningen

Inv. 1982.1050.

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