98th Auction
2018/11/10
Lot 286
Johann Gottlieb Graupner, Dresden, Height 345 mm, circa 1725
A very rare and remarkable flat, altar-shaped baroque-style table clock, with alarm and half hour/hour strike - a model case for clocks produced between 1726 and 1735 at the Meissen porcelain manufactory
Case: brass. Dial: brass, firegilt, engraved, brass chapter ring, central alarm disc. Movm.: solid rectangular brass full plate movement, 2 x gut/fusee for going and striking train, additional barrel for alarm, 3 hammers / 1 bell, verge escapement, short pendulum.
The front consists of a firegilt brass plate with extremely fine engraving that appears three-dimensional; it takes the form of an elaborately finished, baroque-style architectural sculpture, with stepped pilaster strips with volute ends across the corners, a front entrance with a central female mascaron and a dome finial with a statue of Minerva. The architectural elements take their inspiration from the Zwinger in Dresden, where work had started in 1710 - in particular from the "Kronentor" of 1714.
The Hermitage in St Petersburg, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and the Hetjensmuseum in Düsseldorf hold clock cases with dome finials made of Meissen porcelain dating from 1726 that were produced after models designed by Georg Fritzsche; Fritzsche worked - amongst others - with drafts of this engraved clock model by Johann Gottlieb Graupner. Another very similar clock made by Johann Gottlieb Graupner is part of the collection in the Kunstgewerbemuseum in Dresden.
Augsburg clockmaker Johann Gottlieb Graupner (circa 1690-1759) was clockmaker to the court of Elector Frederick Augustus I (Augustus the Strong) in Dresden. He was the son of master maker Paul Graupner (circa 1660-after 1700), who is recorded as the sixth member of the new-founded watchmakers’ guild in Dresden. On December 18, 1716 Johann Gottlieb Graupner became a master himself; he went to Dresden in 1728.
A bracket clock with scenes from the legend of St Hubert by goldsmith Johann Heinrich Köhler and clockmaker Johann Gottlieb Graupner is part of the collection in the Grünes Gewölbe as inventory number VI 2.
Source: https://watch-wiki.org/index.php?title=Graupner,_Johann_Gottlieb, as of 10/02/2018
Fortunately this clock is in almost untouched condition, which allows for restoration by skilled hands that can take all historical aspects into consideration. The back case is missing a side door, the original gut strings are still present. A truly remarkable Dresden clock of historical importance.
Provenance: Landrock Collection
A very rare and remarkable flat, altar-shaped baroque-style table clock, with alarm and half hour/hour strike - a model case for clocks produced between 1726 and 1735 at the Meissen porcelain manufactory
Case: brass. Dial: brass, firegilt, engraved, brass chapter ring, central alarm disc. Movm.: solid rectangular brass full plate movement, 2 x gut/fusee for going and striking train, additional barrel for alarm, 3 hammers / 1 bell, verge escapement, short pendulum.
The front consists of a firegilt brass plate with extremely fine engraving that appears three-dimensional; it takes the form of an elaborately finished, baroque-style architectural sculpture, with stepped pilaster strips with volute ends across the corners, a front entrance with a central female mascaron and a dome finial with a statue of Minerva. The architectural elements take their inspiration from the Zwinger in Dresden, where work had started in 1710 - in particular from the "Kronentor" of 1714.
The Hermitage in St Petersburg, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and the Hetjensmuseum in Düsseldorf hold clock cases with dome finials made of Meissen porcelain dating from 1726 that were produced after models designed by Georg Fritzsche; Fritzsche worked - amongst others - with drafts of this engraved clock model by Johann Gottlieb Graupner. Another very similar clock made by Johann Gottlieb Graupner is part of the collection in the Kunstgewerbemuseum in Dresden.
Augsburg clockmaker Johann Gottlieb Graupner (circa 1690-1759) was clockmaker to the court of Elector Frederick Augustus I (Augustus the Strong) in Dresden. He was the son of master maker Paul Graupner (circa 1660-after 1700), who is recorded as the sixth member of the new-founded watchmakers’ guild in Dresden. On December 18, 1716 Johann Gottlieb Graupner became a master himself; he went to Dresden in 1728.
A bracket clock with scenes from the legend of St Hubert by goldsmith Johann Heinrich Köhler and clockmaker Johann Gottlieb Graupner is part of the collection in the Grünes Gewölbe as inventory number VI 2.
Source: https://watch-wiki.org/index.php?title=Graupner,_Johann_Gottlieb, as of 10/02/2018
Fortunately this clock is in almost untouched condition, which allows for restoration by skilled hands that can take all historical aspects into consideration. The back case is missing a side door, the original gut strings are still present. A truly remarkable Dresden clock of historical importance.
Provenance: Landrock Collection
Sold
estimated
22.000—35.000 €
Price realized
27.300 €