Xavier Tharin的钟表图片带华尔兹音乐作品 巴黎约1860年

Musical Automaton Picture Clock by Xavier Tharin, c. 1860  
Paris, hand-colored lithographed scene depicting a
Mediterranean harbor scene with abbey, fountain, via-
duct and watchtower on a hill, with two-train clock
movement striking hours and halves on gong, 2 ½ in.
(5,6 cm) enameled Roman dial signed  "THARIN A
PARIS", three-air pull-string cylinder movement and
going-barrel automaton movement controlling: nodding
friar reading in a tower room, musician nodding his
head and tapping his foot as he strums a lute, twisting
glass rod in the fountain, lady mending net by the har-
bor wall, a rocking ship in the foreground and two more
on the horizon, a locomotive passing over the viaduct,
and the flag on the watchtower fluttering in the wind. –
In elaborate giltwood frame with internal printed oper-
ating instructions, frame 42 ½ in. (98 cm) wide x 33 ½
in. (85 cm) high (small tear on left border – mostly
covered by frame, scattered foxing / spotting in painted
sky, paper in otherwise fresh original condition). Beau-
tiful exhibition piece in working order.