Copper plated enamel gourd top fishing and woodcutter farming and reading clock

[Copper plated enamel gourd top fishing and woodcutter cultivation and reading clock]

Copper plated enamel gourd top fishing and woodcutter cultivation and reading clock, Guangzhou, Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty, height 87 cm, width 46 cm, thickness 38 cm
The clock has three floors. Take four copper gilded goats as feet. On the front of the bottom floor is a picture of a fisherman and a woodcutter working and reading. The fisherman is fishing by the pool. The woodcutter returns after cutting firewood and passes through the cave. The farmer helps plow the land, and the official reads in the pavilion. On the left and right sides of the bottom layer, there are water methods symbolizing rivers, in which ducks swim. On the front of the middle floor is a two needle clock, surrounded by a radioactive halo of colored stones. On the upper layer, there is a copper gilded enamel gourd inlaid with six gold “Shou”
characters and eight precious patterns in different fonts. Inside the red stone frame on the lower abdomen of the gourd are two movable doors with the words “Da Ji” written on them. Inside the door, there is a group of rotating figures. The music and activity devices of this clock are on the bottom layer, and the timing device is on the middle layer, which can be activated separately
After the movable gadget device is activated, in the sound of the music, the water on both sides of the bottom layer rotates like flowing water, and the ducks swim in a circular motion. The front fisherman waved his fishing rod up and down, the woodcutter carried firewood on his shoulder, the farmer helped the plow in and out of the cave, and the official waved a fan. At the same time, the large auspicious door on the middle floor opens automatically, and the characters inside rotate
This clock uses the spring, tower wheel, and chain as its power source, making full use of mechanical linkage to coordinate the operation of movable devices, indicating that the production of Guangzhong has reached a high level