JEREMIAS PFAFF. AUGSBURG, CIRCA 1670

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AN AUGSBURG GILT-METAL AND EBONY AUTOMATON STRIKING LION CLOCK
Jeremias Pfaff. Augsburg, circa 1670
The well-cast gilt-metal crowned rampant lion with automaton glass eyes and jaw articulated by the strike sequence, its left paw resting on a foliate engraved dial cartouche (now lacking chapter ring), the gilt-copper chequer-hatched octagonal base plate signed Jeremias Pfaff Augsburg next to the silver foliate engraved subsidiary quarter hour ring, the octagonal plated gilt-brass movement with four double-screwed brass pillars of square section, going train with early steel chain to the fusee and barrel with pinned end caps, plain three-arm brass balance to the verge escapement, going barrel for the strike with intricate inter-linked steel arms on the top-plate to the hour and half hour strking countwheel, the steel hammer striking on a single bell, the octagonal ebony base stamped EBN with ripple-moulded panels set with gilt-metal portrait medallions and foliate mounts and terminating in a flared skirt supported on four gilt-metal toupie feet
13¾ in. (35 cm.) high

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Jeremias Pfaff II, 1651-1701, was a fine and quite prolific clockmaker. Lion clocks were a particulary fancy of Augsburg clockmakers and became popular from the second quarter of the 17th. century. This particular example has survived remarkably well by retaining its original escapement and strike system and there is strong evidence of original gilding.

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