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A GERMAN MINIATURE GILT-METAL, SILVER, SILVER-GILT AND ENAMEL QUARTER-STRIKING AND CALENDRICAL TABLE CLOCK

HANS REINHOLDT, AUGSBURG. CIRCA 1630

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A GERMAN MINIATURE GILT-METAL, SILVER, SILVER-GILT AND ENAMEL QUARTER-STRIKING AND CALENDRICAL TABLE CLOCK
HANS REINHOLDT, AUGSBURG. CIRCA 1630
CASE: with silver-gilt figure of Hercules wearing an animal pelt and supporting an engraved globe, with upper band pierced and engraved with figures and foliate designs, the top surmounted by a replaced early 17th Century finial of a figure in armour and with shield, the latter bearing the arms of Brett; the top of the globe engraved with the hours, indicated via a blued steel hand, with silver band around for the minutes and quarter hours, also indicated with blued steel hand; a silver central band decorated in champlevé enamel (losses) with the signs of the zodiac, a silvered band below this giving the months of the year, their number of days and the approximate hours of daylight, with engraved gilt sun mask hand between these bands; the circular plinth below the figure inset with a silver band with red numerals giving the date, indicated via a gilt pointer in the form of a hand, the hexagonal moulded and spreading plinth engraved with foliate designs and centred by a further silver and champlevé enamel (losses) band showing the day of the week with its deity, also with gilt hand pointer, the whole raised on later feet, the case re-gilt MOVEMENTS: the time and quarter striking mechanism housed in the globe, with circular plates joined by four turned vase pillars, single chain fusee for the going train and engraved fixed barrel for the quarter train with pierced and engraved locking lever, the top plate with pierced and engraved later balance bridge to later sprung verge balance (later engraved 'FASTER/SLOWER', original calibrated cover to quarter countwheel for quarter hour strike on domed bell above the movement, with blued steel hand and set with a pin for hour strike release, signed 'Hanns Reinholdt/Augspurg', with pivoted connection to single barrel striking movement in the base, with calibrated countwheel for the hours, with pierced and engraved hog's head hammer on bell secured to the underside via a steel strap
9 2/3 in. (24.5 cm.) high; 3 in. (7.5 cm.) wide; 3 1/3 in. (8.25 cm.) deep

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A miniature Augsburg clock of closely related design by Hans Buschmann is illustrated in K. Maurice, Die deutsche Räderuhr (Band II), Munich, 1976, fig. 465. That example has a circular plinth and does not have a finial. Very similar Atlas figures may be seen on examples by Buschmann and Kreitzer in figs. 460, 461, 462 and 464.
Hans Reinholdt the Younger (1587-1639) was the son of a clockmaker, Johann Reinholdt (1550-1596). An example of his work using a similar figure is in the Ashmolean Museum and is illustrated in Maurice (fig. 464). The associated military figure has a shield bearing the arms of Brett, possibly relating to the collector of that name whose collection was sold at Christie's in the mid-19th Century.