Lot 153

Southern German, 70 mm, 173 g, circa 1600
A magnificent, lavishly decorated, pierced and firegilt Renaissance "clock-watch" case with dial
Case: brass, firegilt. Dial: brass, firegilt.
A frame of intricate, open-work hunting scenes surrounds the figure of a winged female with a pair of compasses and a terrestrial globe, reminiscent of Dürer’s famous etching "Melencolia".

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