25,300 CHF
Transylvanian Clock Johann Kurschell in Schesburg (now Sighisoara, Transylvania, circa 1650. Important and very rare gilt brass pre balance-spring, single-hand hour-striking horizontal table clock. Square, side panels with glazed frames to view the movement. molded base and top, gilt paw feet, base fitted with a bell. Silver chapter ring with Roman numerals and half hour markers mounted on gilt plate with the center engraved with flowers in 17th century style, each corner engraved with a different flower. Single “Tulip” hand. Square 65 x 65 mm, gilt brass, square iron columns, fusee and chain for the going train with decorative steel fusee chain safety-lever spring, short gilt train, verge escapement, circular iron foliot, irregular pierced and florally engraved single-footed cock, ratchet-wheel set-up with decorative engraved click, striking with fixed engraved barrel, unusual cylindrical friction-fit on its arbor governor, count wheel set on the back plate, striking on a bell by a single hammer.Sighisoara on the movement.Dim. 87 x 87 mm Notes The present early horizontal table clock was made in Sighisoara at the time Schesburg, a town which was originally founded by German craftsmen and merchants known as the "Saxons of Transylvania". This small, fortified medieval town played an important strategic and commercial role on the fringes of central Europe for several centuries. In 1431 a nobleman named Vlad III was made the military governor of Transylvania, a region di
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2003-10-11
