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AUGSBURG, CIRCA 1620
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A SOUTH GERMAN GILT-BRONZE AND PARQUETRY AUTOMATON LION TABLE CLOCK
AUGSBURG, CIRCA 1620
CASE: the lion shown passant bearing an engraved shield with initials ‘R.D.’, with automaton eyes and lower jaw, standing on a cross-hatched ground with further lion head emerging to front corner, the stepped rectangular pewter-inlaid rosewood veneered plinth with ripple-moulded borders and inlaid panels of coconut and other specimen woods, raised on winged paw feet DIALS: to the open front of the plinth, the brass plate with silvered chapter ring with Roman hours and alarm disc, iron hand, smaller subsidiary disc showing the quarters, winding square for alarm, the rear with two subsidiary silvered indication dials for the hours and quarters, winding squares for the quarters, the time and the hours MOVEMENT: quarter striking with verge and balance wheel escapement, reinstated alarm, the movement with three plates joined by four square iron pillars with three standing barrels and gut fusee on the going train, two ‘pork pie’ shaped bells, the wheel work with three crossings, two armed iron balance wheel (pre balance spring), two iron countwheels for the hours and quarters, brass flys with end tension springs AUTOMATA: the eyes continually moving via linkage to the balance wheel, the mouth moves with hour strike
11.5/8 in. (29.5 cm.) high; 10.1/4 in. (26 cm.) wide; 7.1/4 in. (18.5 cm.) deep
AUGSBURG, CIRCA 1620
CASE: the lion shown passant bearing an engraved shield with initials ‘R.D.’, with automaton eyes and lower jaw, standing on a cross-hatched ground with further lion head emerging to front corner, the stepped rectangular pewter-inlaid rosewood veneered plinth with ripple-moulded borders and inlaid panels of coconut and other specimen woods, raised on winged paw feet DIALS: to the open front of the plinth, the brass plate with silvered chapter ring with Roman hours and alarm disc, iron hand, smaller subsidiary disc showing the quarters, winding square for alarm, the rear with two subsidiary silvered indication dials for the hours and quarters, winding squares for the quarters, the time and the hours MOVEMENT: quarter striking with verge and balance wheel escapement, reinstated alarm, the movement with three plates joined by four square iron pillars with three standing barrels and gut fusee on the going train, two ‘pork pie’ shaped bells, the wheel work with three crossings, two armed iron balance wheel (pre balance spring), two iron countwheels for the hours and quarters, brass flys with end tension springs AUTOMATA: the eyes continually moving via linkage to the balance wheel, the mouth moves with hour strike
11.5/8 in. (29.5 cm.) high; 10.1/4 in. (26 cm.) wide; 7.1/4 in. (18.5 cm.) deep
Provenance
Courtenay A. Ilbert (1888-1956) and by descent to Michael Inchbald.
Special notice
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