Lot n° 47
Estimation :
4000 - 6000
EUR
Drum-shaped hanging CLOCK with alarm, unsigned, Southern Ger - Lot 47
Drum-shaped hanging CLOCK with alarm, unsigned, Southern Germany, third quarter of the 16th century.
Gilded brass and iron.
Gilded dial with three hour circles: on the outer circle, I through XII with dots for the half-hours; on a second circle, alternating engraved rectangles for the 15-minute marks; toward the center, the hours 13 to 24 around a removable alarm disc; 1 to 12 around a rosette in the center; touch marks around the perimeter to tell time at night; an openwork iron hour hand.
Heavily oxidized iron movement, solid plates, square pillars, barrel, verge escapement, stackfreed, flat balance wheel, adjustment by pig bristle, small openwork cock, chime on gong.
Gilded brass case with relief work and openwork; case back featuring a row of grotesque masks surrounding heads and foliage in the center; case back with a symmetrical foliage design surrounding mythological figures (gods and goddesses?), the openwork middle section featuring hunting scenes (accident).
Diameter 6.3 cm.
PROVENANCE
Henry Marryat Collection. Published in H. Marryat, *Watches, i, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries*, 1938, pp. 8–10.
Antiquorum Geneva auction, April 14, 2002, lot 35, “property of an English gentleman.”
Expert: Anthony TURNER
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