Lot n° 97
An early 18th century German gilt and engraved brass horizontal table clock
Wilhelm Koberlen, Eichstadt
The hexagonal case with moulded cornice decorated with running foliage around the slightly raised octagonal dial plate with silvered champlevé Roman chapter ring and engraved centre of flowers on a hatched ground, with blued steel hands. The case with six bevelled glass observation panels around the sides over a flared base on three turned feet interspersed by three turned finials. The underside set with an inverted bell screwed to a bridge spanning the hinged lid. The movement with hexagonal plates united by vase shaped pillars, the going train with chain fusee, the strike with engraved barrel, the backplate carrying the engraved and numbered countwheel, pierced and engraved cock and blued steel set-up work, signed Willhelm Koberlen, Eychstat, striking the hours via an engraved external countwheel and a hammer cast in the form of a male head. Ticking and striking. 11cms (4.5ins) across.
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