Robert Houdin, Paris, swinging clock with glass dial, the gilt spelter female figure on a marble base with gilt scroll feet, her right arm held aloft and supporting the swinging timepiece, with Roman numeral glass dial, bimetallic gridiron pendulum, terminating with a blue sphere and drop, mounted with gilt stars and cipher, and containing an 8 day brass timepiece, dial signed

Jean Eugene Robert Houdin, Paris, fifth series mystery clock, ebonized rectangular ogee molded wooden base topped with a gilt brass platform, the center with short column supporting the square beveled glass dial with pierced brass hands, enclosed in an ornate, cast gilt frame with cartouche and floral garlands at top, 8 days, time only movement with platform escapement hidden in wooden base, and with gilt brass bottom cover, c1860

C.1845, French, Robert Houdin, Glass Dial mystery clock.