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A Continental three train weight-driven quarter striking chamber clock with alarm, calendar and moonphase

PROBABLY DUTCH OR GERMAN. SECOND HALF 17TH CENTURY

Details

A Continental three train weight-driven quarter striking chamber clock with alarm, calendar and moonphase
Probably Dutch or German. Second half 17th Century
The painted iron dial with white painted Roman chapter ring with pierced steel hand, quarter ring below flanked by winged cherubs, apertures above for moonphase and the days of the week and their deities (disks replaced), the steel three-train movement now converted to verge escapement with rear swinging pendulum, square-section pillars, the countwheel planted inside the rear cover, side doors with spring-loaded latches and painted with allegorical female figures
14 in. (35.5 cm.) high

Literature

A similar clock is illustrated in Britten's, Old Clocks and Watches and their Makers, 1922, p. 493, fig. 655

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

Lot Essay

ALBERT ODMARK NOTES
Purchased at Sotheby's, London, November 14, 1954, lot 175, the collection of the late Percy Webster (by Malcolm Gardner).

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