Live Auction 3712The Abbott Guggenheim Collection: A New York Kunstkammer
A GERMAN GILT-BRASS AND POLYCHROME GRANDE SONNERIE SQUARE TABLE CLOCK
Lot 35

A GERMAN GILT-BRASS AND POLYCHROME GRANDE SONNERIE SQUARE TABLE CLOCK

ABRAHAM SCHEIRLIN, AUGSBURG, MID-17TH CENTURY

Closed28 January 2015

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USD 18,750

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A GERMAN GILT-BRASS AND POLYCHROME GRANDE SONNERIE SQUARE TABLE CLOCK
ABRAHAM SCHEIRLIN, AUGSBURG, MID-17TH CENTURY
The case with glazed sides and painted floral ornament to the dial and plate; the four-train movement with chain fusee for time and three fixed barrels for the strike, the bottom plate with engraved countwheel and signed 'Abraham Scheirlin', three engraved hammers striking three bells to hinged base plate
6 in. (15 cm.) square

Specialist note

Abraham Scheirlin (b. circa 1616 - d. 1694). Scheirlin was the first Augsburg specialist making clock springs and he received special permission to do so on account of his age. (K. Maurice and O. Mayr (editors) The Clockwork Universe, German Clocks and Automata 1550-1650, Munich, 1980, p. 69.)