An Austrian silver-gilt, enamel and engraved rock crystal table clock, Hermann Ratzersdorfer, Vienna, circa 1875

of Louis XIV outline, the panels of engraved glass enclosed by multicolor enamel borders, topped by a drinking cupid mounted on a barrel, the dial painted with a putto with a basket of flowers

fracture and some restoration to enamel on putto finial, losses to barrel below him, otherwise good, nice colors
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A clock of this model by Hermann Ratzersdorfer was shown at the Vienna World's Fair of 1873, reproduced by Karl Friedrich Arnold von Lützow, Kunst und Kunstgewerbe auf der Wiener Weltausstellung, Leipzig, E.A. Seemann, 1873.