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Lot 298

108th Auction

2023/5/20

Lot 298

J. K. Hauth

An ornamental Pressburg quarter hour repeating carriage clock with quarter hour / hour strike, date and alarm

Sold

estimated
1.500—3.000 €
Price realized
3.800 €
Our current catalogue
specific features
Case
Brass, firegilt, profiled base, later openwork and decorated back panel, facet glazed sides and front, the angles decorated with four small vases, screwed-on handle, disc feet.
Dial
Brass, firegilt, engraved volutes and acanthus, applied foliage scrolls, applied silver champlevé chapter ring, central alarm disc, window for date, lever to set striking or silence.
Movement
Brass full plate movement, 3 hammers / 1 bell, 3 barrels for going train, strike and alarm, three-arm brass balance.
Diam.135 mm
Circa1760
Ctry.Slovakia


The case of this early carriage clock is made of smooth firegilt brass. Side windows reveal the movement with three barrels. A pull cort for the repeater is positioned on the right side of the case. A lever for the striking mechanism "Schlagt / Schlagt Nicht" (Strike / No strike) sits above the dial under the curved roof of the clock, next to a disc with the signature of the maker Hauth. Inside the silver chapter ring the dial has a revolving alarm disc with Arabic numerals.


Pressburg, Bratislava today, was once the most important city of the Hungarian kingdom (capital until 1783 and again in 1848). After the treaty of Trianon in 1920 the city became part of the new Czechoslovakia. Since 1993 Bratislava is the capital of Slovakia.