101st Auction

2019/11/16

Lot 609

Probably Augsburg, Height 270 mm, circa 1620
An important Renaissance-style tabernacle clock with automaton and quarter hour / hour strike: "Cavalcade of Moors"
Case: copper, firegilt, lavishly engraved ornaments: strapwork, flowers and tendrils; partly glazed, 1 hammer / 1 bell in the base. Dial: front - silver, inlaid radial Roman numerals "I-XII", 12 touch pieces, polychrome enamelled centre with floral Champlevé decoration, blued hands. back - control dial for striking train, polychrome enamelled Champlevé centre, single blued hand. Movm.: brass frame, brass train, chain/fusee twice for going and striking train, short pendulum, verge escapement.
The square, curved base is supported by four bun feet. The base plate is pierced because of the bell that has been fitted into the base; it is intricately ornamented with engraved scrollwork and pomegranate flowers. The clock case rises high from the base, with four fluted corner pilasters and four baluster finials on top. The automaton moves 6 figures in traditional Moorish garb on foot and on horseback on a disc under an arcade inside the baluster frame. The case is topped by a domed roof with engraved tiles and baluster finials, and a spire with brickwork and crenels.

Sold

estimated
12.50016.000 €
Price realized
21.800 €