Baullus (Paulus) Schiller

An ornamental Nuremberg Renaissance tabernacle clock with 24 hour dial, hour strike and alarm

Sold

estimated

5.000—7.000 €

Price realized

9.500 €

specific features

Case

Brass and copper, firegilt, engraved and chased ornamentation, open-work bell tower, 2 hammers / 2 bells, front pendulum; the back of the clock has two hooks for attaching it to the wall and in addition a square, ebonised wodden base (later).

Dial

Applied silver chapter ring with blue, green and yellow Champlevé enamel inlays, Roman hours "I-XII" and Arabic hours "13-24", central gilt alarm disc, blued iron hand; quarter hour dial with blued iron hand below.

Movement

Brass frame, weight-driven iron movement with pulley system, count wheel for strike mechanism, verge escapement.

Diam.325 gesamthöhe 400 mm

Circa1598

Ctry.Germany

On the left side at the level of the upper movement plate is a shield engraved with the year 1598 and the signature of the clockmaker Baullus Schiller.
The visible sides are exquisitely engraved with foliage scrolls and flowers. Both side panels are hinged. The open-work arcaded two-part bell-tower with obelisk finial is surrounded by a pilaster balustrade and several balusters.

Paulus Schiller (1583-1634) was a renowned maker of clocks and automatons in Nuremberg. Some of his clocks are owned by the national museum in Nuremberg, the state museum of Baden in Karlsruhe, the Guggenheim Collection in New York and a number of private collections.