Lot Essay
Caspar Pfaff (b. circa 1564 - d. 1639) active circa 1599 (see also lot 28).
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CASPAR PFAFF, AUGSBURG, EARLY 17TH CENTURY
Details
A GERMAN ENGRAVED GILT-BRASS AND COPPER STRIKING TABLE CLOCK WITH ALARM AND AUTOMATON
CASPAR PFAFF, AUGSBURG, EARLY 17TH CENTURY
Automaton Turk figure to cupola finial; the dial with twenty-four hour indication and central alarm disc, quarter hour indications below, the rear with strike indication and touch pieces and subsidiary dial '1-8', strike/silent and strike advance levers; chain fusee, later verge escapement and pendulum, the alarm plate with Augsburg pinecone and 'CP' stamps, further stamped to baseplate
16 in. (40.6 cm.) high, 6 ¾ in. (17 cm.) square
CASPAR PFAFF, AUGSBURG, EARLY 17TH CENTURY
Automaton Turk figure to cupola finial; the dial with twenty-four hour indication and central alarm disc, quarter hour indications below, the rear with strike indication and touch pieces and subsidiary dial '1-8', strike/silent and strike advance levers; chain fusee, later verge escapement and pendulum, the alarm plate with Augsburg pinecone and 'CP' stamps, further stamped to baseplate
16 in. (40.6 cm.) high, 6 ¾ in. (17 cm.) square
Literature
C. Vincent, Northern European Clocks in New York Collections, New York, 1972, p. 16.
K. Maurice, Die deutsche Räderuhr, Band II, Munich, 1976, p. 27, fig. 138.
K. Maurice, Die deutsche Räderuhr, Band II, Munich, 1976, p. 27, fig. 138.
Exhibited
Northern European Clocks in New York Collections, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 4 January – 28 March 1972, inv. no. 5, inventory label 'L.1971.93.18'
Dürer, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, Mass., 4 March to 3 April 1991.
Dürer, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, Mass., 4 March to 3 April 1991.
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