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ANTON GLCKSTEIN, VIENNA, 1820
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An important Austrian ormolu, marble and mahogany perpetual calendar grande sonnerie astronomical skeleton clock
Anton Glckstein, Vienna, 1820
The white enamel annular Roman dial signed GLÜCKSTEIN IN WEIN, with inner concentric calendar ring, blued steel hands, the inner and outer ormolu bezels finely cast and chased with foliage, the centre displaying the elaborately pierced U-spoked star wheels, the three subsidiary annular dials for the day and month with seconds dial beneath XII centered by gilt daylight and darkness shutters rising and falling before a blued steel background, the central gilt sector calibrated 4-8 with a gilt hand indicating the number of hours of daylight and the blued hand the hours of darkness, the movement with two large going barrels mounted to the same arbor and Y-shaped brass plates with three massive pillars secured by nuts at the back-plate and steel latches to the front-plate, the wheel train end-capped throughout and with finely pierced U-spoked wheels, the pinwheel escapement with Graham-type deadbeat pallets pivoted on an adjustable brass bar inside the front-plate, steel and brass five-rod gridiron pendulum on a knife-edge suspension block, the strike trains with elaborate steel rack-and-snails mounted at the base; the left quarter strike train with trip repeat and strike/silent levers, the train receiving power from the main going train barrel; the hour striking train mounted on the right side and receiving power from a subsidiary barrel mounted in front of the going barrel, both barrels wound interdependently via a single steel square with an ormolu rosette cover, the front-plate signed at the base Anton Glckstein Anno 820, the dial appearing to rest upon two finely cast and chased eagles on foliate cast ormolu pedestals, the large ormolu drum base cast with tiny rosettes resting on hairy paw feet and containing the going barrel movement with indirect drive to the ormolu and painted moonphase sphere flanked by the eagles, the movement under a large glass dome; the whole resting on a circular green marble plate on a mahogany tripod stand with elaborate ormolu trellis-cast and milled baluster mouldings and on hairy paw feet; the clock and stand recently cleaned and restored.
54½in. (138cm.) high
Anton Glckstein, Vienna, 1820
The white enamel annular Roman dial signed GLÜCKSTEIN IN WEIN, with inner concentric calendar ring, blued steel hands, the inner and outer ormolu bezels finely cast and chased with foliage, the centre displaying the elaborately pierced U-spoked star wheels, the three subsidiary annular dials for the day and month with seconds dial beneath XII centered by gilt daylight and darkness shutters rising and falling before a blued steel background, the central gilt sector calibrated 4-8 with a gilt hand indicating the number of hours of daylight and the blued hand the hours of darkness, the movement with two large going barrels mounted to the same arbor and Y-shaped brass plates with three massive pillars secured by nuts at the back-plate and steel latches to the front-plate, the wheel train end-capped throughout and with finely pierced U-spoked wheels, the pinwheel escapement with Graham-type deadbeat pallets pivoted on an adjustable brass bar inside the front-plate, steel and brass five-rod gridiron pendulum on a knife-edge suspension block, the strike trains with elaborate steel rack-and-snails mounted at the base; the left quarter strike train with trip repeat and strike/silent levers, the train receiving power from the main going train barrel; the hour striking train mounted on the right side and receiving power from a subsidiary barrel mounted in front of the going barrel, both barrels wound interdependently via a single steel square with an ormolu rosette cover, the front-plate signed at the base Anton Glckstein Anno 820, the dial appearing to rest upon two finely cast and chased eagles on foliate cast ormolu pedestals, the large ormolu drum base cast with tiny rosettes resting on hairy paw feet and containing the going barrel movement with indirect drive to the ormolu and painted moonphase sphere flanked by the eagles, the movement under a large glass dome; the whole resting on a circular green marble plate on a mahogany tripod stand with elaborate ormolu trellis-cast and milled baluster mouldings and on hairy paw feet; the clock and stand recently cleaned and restored.
54½in. (138cm.) high
Literature
Frederick Kaltenböck Die Weiner Uhr, Germany, 1993, illustrated- p. 132-134, figs. 155-162