THE MOVEMENT SIGNED C.F.T, PROBABLY DANZIG, THE SIDE PANELS ATTRIBUTED TO THE WORKSHOP OF WENZEL JAMNITZER, NUREMBERG. LATE 16TH/EARLY 17TH CENTURY

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A SILVER-MOUNTED GILT-METAL STRIKING SQUARE TABLE CLOCK
THE MOVEMENT SIGNED C.F.T, PROBABLY DANZIG, THE SIDE PANELS ATTRIBUTED TO THE WORKSHOP OF WENZEL JAMNITZER, NUREMBERG. LATE 16TH/EARLY 17TH CENTURY
CASE: sides cast in high relief with strapwork and depicting figures flanked by satyr caryatids, front left angle pierced for sound fret, sprung catch to movement cover engraved on both sides, engraved strapwork to twin pierced roundels DIAL: iron dial plate with engraved later gilt-brass surround to later chapter disc with repoussé centre, replaced cut steel hand MOVEMENT: secured to case by pierced and engraved latches, four square pillars, twin fixed barrels, steel front plate, brass back plate with scored line border and punched '*C*F*T*' above hog's hair regulation markers, engraved later balance cock to replaced sprung verge balance, calibrated countwheel strike on later bell
3¾ in. (9.5 cm.) high; 5¾ in. (14.5 cm.) square

Provenance

Anonymous sale, Christie's New York, 28 October, 1991, lot 185.

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 17.5% on the buyer's premium.

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Lot Essay

This clock, with its steel front plate and brass back plate, is very typical in construction for Polish clocks of this period. A clock with identical frieze by Hans Lucas, Thorn (south of Danzig), is in the collection of the Bayerisches National Museum, Munich and illustrated, K. Maurice, Die deutsche Räderuhr, Band II, Munich, 1976, fig 585. The frieze of that clock is attributed to the Jamnitzer workshop.

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