Lot 234

Presumably Augsburg, Height 320 mm (Total Height 360 mm), circa 1610
An ornamental Augsburg Renaissance tabernacle clock with hour strike
Case: brass, firegilt; punched, engraved and chased ornamentation, open-work bell tower, 1 hammer / 1 bell, short pendulum, later square base. Dial: Front - applied chapter ring with Roman hours "I-XII" and engraved compass rose in the centre, single iron hand. Back - applied hour strike control dial with ornamented centre; brass hand. Movm.: iron frame, brass train, gut/fusee for going train and gut/fusee for striking train, count wheel for strike mechanism, verge escapement.
The visible sides are exquisitely ornamented with scrollwork, pomegranates and pomegranate flowers; the corners are decorated with pilasters. Both side panels can be removed. The open-work belfry with obelisk finial is surrounded by a pilaster strip balustrade and several balusters.

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