A silver, enamel, and crystal table clock, manner of Hermann Ratzersdorfer of Vienna, circa 1900

of Louis XV cartel form with red and white enamel borders with gilt highlights, the panels engraved with foliage

crack to front panel of base; left side panel re-glued, missing one clock hand and dial cover loose
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Ratzersdorfer showed a clock of this model at the 1873 Vienna exhibition (Neuwirth fig. 43, p. 137), but it seems to have also been copied by other firms around the turn of the century.