38,400 CHF
Renaissance Table Clock & Sundial Hans Gruber, (Furtwangen, Nuremberg). Dated 1574. Very fine and extremely rare, early, gilt brass, three-train, hour-striking Renaissance table clock with alarm, quarter-hour indication, striking recording dial, one detachable side-panel interior with sundial and compass. To be sold without reserve Rectangular, gilt brass, four outset fluted Ionic columns with engraved plinths, overhanging entablature, latched sides, the lefthand side engraved with the seated figure of Patience holding a lamb, strapwork border, engraved below “Patiencia”, the interior engraved with the full-length figure of Astronomy holding an armillary sphere within a strapwork and repeat-pattern border, engraved “Astrol”, the right-hand side engraved with the seated winged figure of Melancholy holding a pair of dividers on a globe within a strapwork border, engraved below “Melencolia”, the interior with engraved sundial with hinged gnomon, compass below, the border engraved with winged putti above and dolphins below, steel latches and springs, the top with engraved borders, four turned vase finials, steel bell stand, gilt brass Hercules finial, molded cornicing, base with engraved border, lion paw feet. Silver chapter ring with radial Roman numerals, lozenge half-hour divisions, inner brass alarm-setting disc with Arabic numerals, below a silver chapterring for the quarter-hour indication to match the dial, gilt brass mask engraved with a dog and rabbit in the upper cor
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2009-03-29