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A fine and rare second half of the 16th century South German gilt brass weight-driven wall clock Signed twice to the door interiors Iacobus Patritius. The underside signed PvE twice.
11 December 2019, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond StreetSold for £6,062.50 inc. premium
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A fine and rare second half of the 16th century South German gilt brass weight-driven wall clock
Signed twice to the door interiors Iacobus Patritius. The underside signed PvE twice.
The rectangular case surmounted by a bell on a stand and a shaped and engraved cresting to three sides, the right hand door depicting the figure of Fortune, the winged figure standing in fine robes on top of a globe, carrying her wheel with seated figure in her left hand and a palm frond in her right; the left hand door depicts the contrary scene; this time, she is half dressed and blindfolded, a crowned figure falls from her wheel and a ship tosses aimlessly in the wind, the ungilded rear cover mounted with a pair of iron bands, one forming a hanging loop, the other with right angled terminals to allow for wall suspension, the gilt underside decorated with four-leaf stems and signed twice PvE, with a squat ball foot at each corner. The rectangular dial-plate engraved to the top and bottom with shaded foliate scrolls, the 2.75 inch diameter dial with outer 1-24 hour Arabic ring with holes enclosing the double I-XII chapters and centred by a I-IIII track with star markers, now with two hands. The weight driven, two-train movement with brass wheels to the going train, now terminating in a verge escapement with short bob pendulum pivoted in front of the dial, the strike train mounted behind and with steel wheelwork, the small countwheel dictating the strike. Ticking but currently not striking due to lack of hammer.
17cms (6.75ins) high.
The rectangular case surmounted by a bell on a stand and a shaped and engraved cresting to three sides, the right hand door depicting the figure of Fortune, the winged figure standing in fine robes on top of a globe, carrying her wheel with seated figure in her left hand and a palm frond in her right; the left hand door depicts the contrary scene; this time, she is half dressed and blindfolded, a crowned figure falls from her wheel and a ship tosses aimlessly in the wind, the ungilded rear cover mounted with a pair of iron bands, one forming a hanging loop, the other with right angled terminals to allow for wall suspension, the gilt underside decorated with four-leaf stems and signed twice PvE, with a squat ball foot at each corner. The rectangular dial-plate engraved to the top and bottom with shaded foliate scrolls, the 2.75 inch diameter dial with outer 1-24 hour Arabic ring with holes enclosing the double I-XII chapters and centred by a I-IIII track with star markers, now with two hands. The weight driven, two-train movement with brass wheels to the going train, now terminating in a verge escapement with short bob pendulum pivoted in front of the dial, the strike train mounted behind and with steel wheelwork, the small countwheel dictating the strike. Ticking but currently not striking due to lack of hammer.
17cms (6.75ins) high.
Footnotes
The image of Fortuna on the right hand side door is taken from a print by Sebald Beham (1500–1550).
Similar weight driven wall clocks are illustrated in:
Maurice, K. (1976) Die Deutsche Raderuhr Band 2. Munchen: C.H. Beck, plates 100-103
Vehmeyer, H.M. (2004) Clocks Their Origin and Development, Snoeck Editions, Item numbers G6, and G11.