Lot N. 673
Metal lantern clock, Giovan Battista Alberici
mid 18th century
chiselled gilt metal dial with black Roman numerals, bearing the inscription "Gio. Batt Alberici fecit 1748", missing hour hand, turned pinnacles on the top, complete with weights, functioning to be checked
h cm 34
Giovan Battista Alberici was active in Rome in the mid-eighteenth century.
See: E. Morpurgo, Dictionary of Italian Watches. Milan 1974