95th Auction

2017/5/6

Lot 255

Jacob Guldan, Presburg (Bratislava), Movement No. 690, 73 x 65 x 60 mm, circa 1750
An extremely rare, small hexagonal hour striking and hour repeating horizontal table clock with alarm
Case: brass, gilt, the sides with six windows, baluster-shaped feet, rear bell. Dial: circular, slightly domed silvered dial. Movm.: hexagonal brass movement, chain/fusee, 3 barrels, 1 engraved hammer, additional hammer for alarm, verge escapement, three-arm brass balance.
Jacob (Jacab) Guldan was born 1726 in Neugedein (Bohemia). He became master in 1777 and died in Bratislava in 1790.
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.

Sold

estimated
3.5004.500 €
Price realized
5.600 €