Antique Clocks :
The Peacock Clock, the work of the 18th-century London watchmaker James Cox. On the gilt branches of an oak tree sit a peacock, a cockerel, an owl in a cage, & a squirrel. When the clock strikes, a mechanism sets the animals in motion. A small revolving dial on a toadstool shows the time. The clock was purchased by Prince Potemkin from the English adventuress Duchess of Kingston, 1st housed in Potemkin's Tauride Palace, but after Catherine II's death it was transferred to the Hermitage in St. P
