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20 November 2009  |  Furniture & Decorative Arts   |  Article

The Divine Clockmaker and the King’s Ébéniste

During his lifetime Philipp Mattheus Hahn rose to become one of Germany’s greatest inventors of scientific instruments and intricately refined clocks in the 18th century. Acknowledged and treasured by royalty and nobility, it was the Duke Carl August of Sachsen-Weimar and Duke Carl Eugen von Würrttemberg, who bestowed upon Hahn the title ‘divine clockmaker’. The pairing of Hahn’s work with that of Johannes Klinckerfuss, one of the most important German cabinet makers of the early 19th century and Ébéniste to the King of Württemberg, represents a partnership between some of history’s greatest talents.


Related Sale
Sale 2835
European Noble and Private Collections
15-16 Dec 2009
Amsterdam

Related Departments
Clocks, Marine Chronometers & Barometers
European Furniture, Decorative Objects & Early Sculpture

Keywords
Clocks
late 18th Century
calendar
tall, longcase & grandfather
brass
mahogany
painted
Germany
Neo-Classical

Lot 438, Sale 2835
A SOUTH GERMAN MAHOGANY DOUBLE-DIAL, QUARTER-STRIKING, YEAR-GOING LONGCASE
THE MOVEMENT BY PHILIPP MATTHÄUS HAHN, CIRCA...
Price Realized: €73,000