Lot 278

Cas. Pfaf (Caspar Pfaff), Augsburg, Height 95 mm, Diameter 145 mm, circa 1610
A single-handed drum-shaped table clock of outstanding condition and museum quality with hour strike and polychrome Champlevé dial
Case: firegilt brass case, 3 bun feet, rear bell. Dial: silver, polychrome champlevé enamel. Movm.: full plate movement, gut/fusee, verge escapement, 1 barrel for striking train, 1 hammer, locking plate for strike mechanism, applied click work, plain two-arm iron balance without balance spring.
The walls are lavishly chased and engraved with strapwork, pomegranates and lilies. Four multi-coloured parrots flit about amid orange-coloured cornflowers and bright-green foliage - the translucent champlevé ornamentation covers the centre of the silver dial, which is surrounded by engraved leaf garlands. A central large, brass hour hand intricately styled in the shape of a flower points to the outer Roman hours "I-XII" and the inner Arabic hours "13-24".
According to Juergen Abeler Augsburg clockmaker Caspar Pfaff was born in 1564. In 1599 it was the first time he was recorded. Pfaff died in 1639.

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