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Austrian Biedermeier table clock with automaton, eye turner and calendar

Austria, probably Vienna, 1820s–1830s, veneered ebonized wooden case, four alabaster columns; carved gilded column bases, movement with anchor escapement and pendulum suspended on a silk thread, skeleton dial with an aperture revealing the striking mechanism and calendar gearing, three small dial rings subsidiary ring dials indicating calendar data (month, day of the month, and day of the week), dial with automata – two moving relief figures with an anvil and treadle grindstone (Blacksmith and Grinder), eye turner - a mascaron placed at the top, whose eyes move with the movement of a pendulum, 4/4 hour striking mechanism, repeater function, enamel dial ring with Arabic numerals, blued steel hands, overall dimensions 67 × 34.5 × 15 cm.