97th Auction

2018/5/12

Lot 91

Master’s mark "GS", Augsburg or Nuremberg, Height 150 mm, circa 1560
A fragment of an important small Renaissance turret clock fragment with one hand and hour strike - with motives according Sebald Beham's copper engravings "The Liberal Arts"
Case: brass, firegilt, square base plate. All sides with lavish engraving: left and right with the personifications of Geometria and Arithmetria, on the back Musica. The four corners with columns with Corinthian capitals, top bell, engraved top with vases. Dial: hour chapter dial with engraved Arabic numerals "1-24". Movm.: iron frame, iron going train, gut/fusee for going train, gut/fusee for striking train, 1 hammer, short pendulum, locking plate.
According to Abeler’s "Meister der Uhrmacherkunst" the master’s mark "GS" with a man’s head and a pointed hat refers to an unknown artist from Augsburg or Nuremberg; two table clocks by the same maker dating from circa 1550 are known. The engraving on the sides are of outstanding quality and inspired by Sebald Beham’s series of seven etchings entitled "Seven Liberal Arts", which he created between 1531 and 1550. Clocks of the same type with two barrels under the movement frame are illustrated in Klaus Maurice‘s "Die deutsche Räderuhr", part 2, illustrations 87 a/b.
Hans Sebald Beham (* 1500 in Nuremberg; † November 22, 1550 in Frankfurt am Main) was a renowned painted and copper engraver, who, together with his brother Barthel, probably trained in the workshop of Albrecht Dürer. He lived in Munich, Nuremberg and Frankfurt; about 270 engravings and 300 wood carvings by Beham have survived.

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estimated
6.00030.000 €
Price realized
21.100 €