Lot 269

Johanes Kllassenn fecit Willna 1638, 112 x 112 x 85 mm, dated 1638
A horizontal, single-hand, square-cased table clock with hour strike, formerly part of the legendary Justice Warren Shepro collection (1926-2000); Shepro was a connoisseur and enthusiast of important historical timepieces and owned of one of the finest collections of watches and clocks in the world
Case: firegilt brass, sides engraved with various European wildflowers; four oval, glazed silver frames screwed to the sides, winged claw feet, rear bell. Dial: brass, firegilt, rim elaborately engraved with floral motifs, each spandrel with engraved lily, rose, cornflower and poppy; champlevé chapter ring with central engraving: riverscape with a sailing boat and a rowing board against the outline of a medieval town, with an angler sitting on the left and a fisherman standing next to a tree on the right. Movm.: full-plate brass movement, firegilt, chain/fusee, finely engraved going barrel for the strike, hammer in the shape of a bird’s head, locking disc for the striking mechanism, mounted blued iron locking device, verge escapement, hog's bristle with steel adjustment lever.
Provenance:
- Justice Warren Shepro Collection, Inv. No.: 1023
- Sold at an auction at Sothebys, New York, "The Justice Warren Shepro Collection of Clocks", April 2001
- Distinguished private collection in Vienna

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