103rd Auction
2020/11/7
Lot 228
Probably Augsburg, 160 x 160 x 90 mm, circa 1620
An astronomical square-cased table clock of high quality, with quarter hour self strike, alarm, moon phase and moon age in its original leather-covered travelling case
Case: brass, firegilt, moulded, lateral screwed on glazed silver windows, four silver paw feet, silver base plate with hinge, small bell for the quarter strike, large bell for the hour strike. Dial: firegilt brass, silver chapter ring. Movm.: brass, firegilt, applied pierced foliate decor, three barrels, chain/fusee, hog's bristle, verge escapement, locking plate, blued click work, plain two arm iron balance, large florally engraved and pierced balance cock, two hammers with engraved knobs, one blued hammer for alarm.
This beautiful Renaissance-style table clock was most likely made in Southern Germany; the design of the case is subtle and minimalist. It has large paw feet, four horizontally oval-shaped silver windows and two flower-adorned hands – together with the engraved cherub heads in the spandrels of the front dial, they are the only visible ornamentation. The dial consists of several parts: A disc with engraved, central aspect chart and a circular opening for the moon phase over a ring indicating the moon age, then the revolving silver alarm disc and the silver hour ring with Roman numerals set in a firegilt brass ring with Arabic 5-minute display and quarter divisions I-IIII.
A long blued central hand shows the minutes, another long, flower-embellished hand mounted on the aspects disc indicates the hours, while a short flower-adorned hand (also mounted on the aspects disc) serves as alarm hand.
A similar horizontal table clock is illustrated and described on page 140f of "Clocks their origin and development 1320-1880", Vol I, Wilsele 2004, by H. M. Vehmeyer. That clock was made by Johann Sayller of Ulm around 1630.
An astronomical square-cased table clock of high quality, with quarter hour self strike, alarm, moon phase and moon age in its original leather-covered travelling case
Case: brass, firegilt, moulded, lateral screwed on glazed silver windows, four silver paw feet, silver base plate with hinge, small bell for the quarter strike, large bell for the hour strike. Dial: firegilt brass, silver chapter ring. Movm.: brass, firegilt, applied pierced foliate decor, three barrels, chain/fusee, hog's bristle, verge escapement, locking plate, blued click work, plain two arm iron balance, large florally engraved and pierced balance cock, two hammers with engraved knobs, one blued hammer for alarm.
This beautiful Renaissance-style table clock was most likely made in Southern Germany; the design of the case is subtle and minimalist. It has large paw feet, four horizontally oval-shaped silver windows and two flower-adorned hands – together with the engraved cherub heads in the spandrels of the front dial, they are the only visible ornamentation. The dial consists of several parts: A disc with engraved, central aspect chart and a circular opening for the moon phase over a ring indicating the moon age, then the revolving silver alarm disc and the silver hour ring with Roman numerals set in a firegilt brass ring with Arabic 5-minute display and quarter divisions I-IIII.
A long blued central hand shows the minutes, another long, flower-embellished hand mounted on the aspects disc indicates the hours, while a short flower-adorned hand (also mounted on the aspects disc) serves as alarm hand.
A similar horizontal table clock is illustrated and described on page 140f of "Clocks their origin and development 1320-1880", Vol I, Wilsele 2004, by H. M. Vehmeyer. That clock was made by Johann Sayller of Ulm around 1630.
Sold
estimated
25.000—30.000 €
Price realized
24.000 €