EARLY 19TH CENTURY

细节

A North German ormolu and ebonised striking mantel clock
Early 19th century
The circular white-enamelled Arabic dial with inner calendar ring, containing the twin barrel movement with anchor escapement and rack strike on bell, inscribed Bartels Preetz, surmounted by an eagle and a garland with grapes of vine, flanked to either side by a lion on a rectangular socle, on a rectangular plinth centred by a mask and flanked by grapes of vine, on toupie feet, with a paperlabel to the upper part of one socle indisticntly described .../A Siebe/..29 May/1813, restored chips to one winding-hole, one foot later
35cm. high x 20.5cm. wide x 9cm. deep

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拍品专文

Baillie mentions two watchmakers named Bartels who were active in the early 19th century. One Hinrich Wilhelm, active in Ritzebüttel, 1821; and Wed. Bartels, active in Amsterdam 1822 - 1825.

It is most likely that this clock was made by Hinrich Wilhelm Bartels as the clock is also inscribed Preetz, a small town in Schleswig Holstein, more or less in the same region as Ritzebüttel, which is just above Hamburg. Curiously the movement has some typically Swiss features, such as the rack strike with ornate scroll and the graduated countwheel.

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