Picture clock Vienna around 1860, on the dial marked Jakob Weber Vienna (active 1847 to ca. 1885 Vienna), movement with quarter hour strike on two tone springs and release of a large roller chime clock, marked A. Ulbrich in Vienna, with 81 reeds (two missing), plays several songs in good sound, in elaborate stucco frame fine history painting in oil on tin, signed Bauer 1858, depicting a prince going into battle and saying goodbye to his beloved, Signs of age and small flaws in the painting layer, dial repaired at the winding holes, movement is operable, striking mechanism does not release, the connection to the movement is interrupted, but release via cord pull works, dimensions 95 x 90 x 20 cm.

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