LATE 17TH CENTURY

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A SOUTH GERMAN IRON, GILT-BRASS AND PEWTER STRIKING TELLERUHR
LATE 17TH CENTURY
The back-painted iron dial plate applied with a foliate repoussé gilt-brass cresting with loop handle above, the pewter chapter ring with Roman numerals and elaborate half hour markers, the gilt-brass centre with chased foliate decoration, single sculpted steel hand, the movement with hinged pierced and engraved cover set with the bell cover with integral bell, circular plates joined by four back-pinned ringed and tapering pillars, chain fusee for the going train and barrel for the strike train, verge and three-arm steel balance escapement with later hairspring regulation, foliate pierced and engraved balance cock and foot, blued steel springs, countwheel with rosette-engraved centre and blued steel pointer
See movement detail p.30
54 cm. high (overall), 37.5 cm. diameter

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Lot Essay

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
R. Mühe & H. Vogel, Alte Uhren Ein Handbuch europäischer Tischuhren, Wanduhren and Bodenstanduhren, Munich, 1978, p.159, fig.271
Klaus Maurice, Die deutsche Räderuhr, Part II, Munich 1976, figs.734-748

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