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銅鍍金人偶翻杠水法跑鴨亭式廣鐘
modelled in a dual tier pagoda form; the base section housing the works of curving section, all supported on ornate curvilinear foliate feet. The enameled dial painted with Roman hour markers, set behind a hinging glass door to a gilt bronze panel beneath a cut-out metal automaton scene before spiraling glass rods simulating waterfalls. The upper section in the form of a chamber topped with a square sectioned roof with pointed eaves, surmounted in a gilt bronze finial all housed within an openwork gallery, having a complex figural automata of vaulting acrobats spinning about bars upon the opening of a red doored curtain before retiring to the left. The 8-day fusee movement operating a quarter hour strike on bells, or with a brass pinned cylinder to operate the automata function, all while music plays. 

乾隆中後期經典廣鐘樣式。鐘分兩層，下層為曲線形箱體，正面有三針時鐘，大明火琺瑯羅馬數字盤。鐘盤上方拱形洞內有水法和跑鸭。上層為亭，亭內掛簾，機械開動后右侧門簾卷起，一对翻杠人偶前後移出，循入左門，樂畢亭內左侧門簾降下，下層水法和跑鸭同時轉動，非常活潑。同款鐘錶可參考北京故宮藏故00182806，故00182807及故00183146。