Lot 1005* - A196 Decorative Arts - Thursday, 25. March 2021, 01.30 PM
RARE PAINTED CLOCK WITH MOON PHASE AND AUTOMATED MECHANISM
The case possibly later.
Beautiful iron clock with a carefully executed iron movement. A somewhat more simple, but in many details comparable clock, dated around 1620, is illustrated in: Fridolin Staub, Eine Sammlung alter Uhren, Gipf-Oberfrick, 2000, No. 91, p. 66. An externally almost identical clock is on display in the Württembergische Landesmuseum, Stuttgart. (Johann Willsberger, Zauberhafte Gehäuse der Zeit, Die Schönsten Uhren aus sechs Jahrhunderten, Düsseldorf and Vienna, 1974).
CHF 10 000 / 15 000 | (€ 10 310 / 15 460)
Sold for CHF 36 900 (including buyer’s premium)
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